# Pietrelcina

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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name = Pietrelcina
| official_name = Comune di Pietrelcina
| native_name = {{native name|nap|Pretapucìna}}
| image_skyline = Pietrelcina.jpg
| image_caption = A street in Pietrelcina
| image_size = 180
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| image_shield = Pietrelcina_Stemma.png
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| coordinates = {{coord|41|12|N|14|51|E|region:IT_type:city(3056)|display=it}}
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| region = [Campania](/source/Campania)
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| province = [Benevento](/source/Province_of_Benevento) (BN)
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| frazioni = Piana Romana, Stazione
| mayor = Domenico Masone
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| area_total_km2 = 28.77
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| elevation_m = 345
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| elevation_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tuttitalia.it/campania/78-pietrelcina/|title=Pietrelcina|website=Tuttitalia|language=Italian}}</ref>
| population_total = 2996
| population_as_of = 1 January 2020
| population_footnotes =<ref>{{cite web |url=http://demo.istat.it/pop2020/index3_e.html |title=Resident population |publisher=Istat |date=1 January 2020 |accessdate=28 July 2021 |archive-date=31 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831200256/http://demo.istat.it/pop2020/index3_e.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| population_demonym = Pietrelcinesi
| postal_code = 82020
| area_code = 0824
| istat = 062052
| saint = [Madonna della Libera](/source/Madonna_della_Libera)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comuni-italiani.it/062/052/index.html |title=Comune di Pietrelcina |publisher=Comuni di Italia |accessdate=28 July 2021}}</ref>
| day = 3 December
| website = {{official website|http://www.comune.pietrelcina.bn.it/}}
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'''Pietrelcina''' ({{langx|nap|Pretapucìna}}) is a town and {{lang|it|[comune](/source/comune)}} (municipality) in the [province of Benevento](/source/province_of_Benevento) in the [Campania](/source/Campania) region of southern [Italy](/source/Italy). It is the birthplace of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, better known as [Padre Pio](/source/Padre_Pio).

==Geography==
[Benevento](/source/Benevento), [Paduli](/source/Paduli), [Pago Veiano](/source/Pago_Veiano) and [Pesco Sannita](/source/Pesco_Sannita) are neighbouring towns.

==International relations==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Italy}}

Pietrelcina is [twinned](/source/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities) with<!--Alatri is a religious, unofficial twinning-->:
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [San Giovanni Rotondo](/source/San_Giovanni_Rotondo), [Italy](/source/Italy)
*{{flagicon|PLE}} [Bethlehem](/source/Bethlehem), [Palestine](/source/Palestine)
*{{flagicon|POL}} [Wadowice](/source/Wadowice), [Poland](/source/Poland), since 2006

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120909195953/http://www.paesaggioitaliano.eu/gallery/pietrelcina/index.php Photo Gallery] {{in lang|it}}
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{{Province of Benevento}}

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Category:Cities and towns in Campania

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