Nave (BS)

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Coat of arms	Map
Statistics
Region:	Lombardy
Province:	Brescia
Location:	45°35′06″N, 10°17′00″E[1]
Area:	27 km²
Population:	11,114[1]
Population density:	382/km²
Sections:	Nave centro Campanile Cortine Dernago Mitria Monteclana Muratello
Elevation:	m
Postal code:	25075
Area/distance code:	030
Car designation:	BS
ISTAT code:	017117
Fiscal code:	F851
Name of habitants:
Website:	www.comune.nave.bs.it www.nave.it

Nave is a town and comune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy, Italy. The commune is bounded by the comuni of Brescia, Caino, Lumezzane and Bovezzo. It is located in the Garza valley. Note: this list must be checked, it appears to lack Concesio and Serle while Brescia may be spurious

The origin of the name Nave (Nae in the local lumbard slang) is not certain. Some maintain it comes from nava (cfr. English navel) meaning the valley basin in which Nave sits, others think it is a contraction from Latin nam vallis, wide valley [1]. Another possibility is it comes from Latin navis = ship (cfr. Italian nave with the same meaning) due to the overall shape of the town when seen from the Maddalena mountain. Notwithstanding this hypotesis being held as unprobable the coat of arms of the town sports a ship on it.

Originally Nave consisted in a series of loosely connected urban sections: Nave proper (Nave centro, Nae), Campanile (Campanil), Cortine (Cǜrtine), Dernago (Dernac), Mitria (Mitria), Monteclana (Monteclana), Muratello (Möradel) which eventually connected together following urbanization. This is reflected by the fact that Nave does not have a main square, which is very uncommon for an Italian town.

A Lombard language tongue twister plays on Nae being both the name of the town and a past tense of the verb nà (English to go, Italian andare): en dè che nae a Nae go 'ncontrat el pret de Nae, 'l ma dìt en do che nae me go dìt che nae a Nae, which can be translated as: I was going to Nave when I met the priest of Nave, he asked me where I was going and I told him I was going to Nave.

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