Borgo 1039324 216813903 2008-06-03T10:18:39Z Gilgamesh 47947 '''Borgo''' is an Italian word (plural ''borghi''), cognate with English ''[[borough]]'', German ''Burg'', French ''bourg'', that now usually means the new town outside the walls of an old town (the ''paese''). Very often the ''borgo'' is a distinct ''[[frazione]]'' from the ''paese'', and its name is that of the town with ''Borgo'' added, either before or after: for example, the lower town of [[Trevi]] is ''Borgo Trevi''; the lower town of [[Cerreto di Spoleto]] is ''Cerreto Borgo''. The word is part of the name of a number of small places throughout Italy, of which the best known is: * [[Borgo (rione of Rome)]] is the fourteenth rione of Rome. and among which the following full [[comune|comuni]]: *[[Borgo a Mozzano]], in the province of Lucca *[[Borgo d'Ale]], in the province of Vercelli *[[Borgo di Terzo]], in the province of Bergamo *[[Borgo Pace]], in the province of Pesaro e Urbino *[[Borgo Priolo]], in the province of Pavia *[[Borgo San Dalmazzo]], in the province of Cuneo *[[Borgo San Giacomo]], in the province of Brescia *[[Borgo San Giovanni]], in the province of Lodi *[[Borgo San Lorenzo]], in the province of Florence *[[Borgo San Martino]], in the province of Alessandria *[[Borgo San Siro]], in the province of Pavia *[[Borgo Ticino]], in the province of Novara *[[Borgo Tossignano]], in the province of Bologna *[[Borgo Val di Taro]], in the province of Parma *[[Borgo Valsugana]], in the province of Trento *[[Borgo Velino]], in the province of Rieti *[[Borgo Vercelli]], in the province of Vercelli * [[Borgo, Haute-Corse]] is a commune of the [[Haute-Corse]] ''département'', on the island of [[Corsica]], in France. [[Borgo Santa Lucia]] is an historic rione in the City of [[Naples]] The diminutive form of the word is [[borghetto]] ("little borgo"), from which the contracted term [[ghetto]] derived. {{geodis}} [[de:Borgo]] [[he:בורגו]] [[it:Borgo]] [[nl:Borgo]] [[no:Borgo]]