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| | Sondrio -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | city, capital of Sondrio provincia, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy; it is the chief town of the Valtellina (the upper Adda River valley), near the mouth of the Mallero River, and lies at an elevation of 1,017 feet (310 m), north of Bergamo. |
 | | The valley is enclosed by the Bernina Alps (north), the Ortles mountains (northeast), and the Orobie Alps (south) and is traversed by good roads over four well-marked Alpine passes: the... |
 | | Administratively, Lombardy consists of the provincie of Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Milano, Pavia, Sondrio, and Varese. |
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