View source for Loiano

{{More citations needed|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Loiano
| official_name       = Comune di Loiano
| native_name         = 
| image_skyline       = LoianoAstronomicalObservatory60cm.png
| imagesize           = 
| image_alt           = 
| image_caption       = Loiano Astronomical Observatory.
| image_shield        = Loiano-Stemma.png
| shield_alt          = 
| image_map           = 
| map_alt             = 
| map_caption         = 
| pushpin_label_position = 
| pushpin_map_alt     = 
| coordinates         = {{coord|44|16|N|11|19|E|region:IT|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes = 
| region              = {{RegioneIT|sigla=EMR}}
| metropolitan_city   = [[Metropolitan City of Bologna|Bologna]] (BO)
| frazioni            = Anconella, Barbarolo, Bibulano, La Guarda, Quinzano, Roncastaldo, Sabbioni, Scanello, Scascoli
| mayor_party         = 
| mayor               = Fabrizio Morganti
| area_footnotes      = 
| area_total_km2      = 52.41
| population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute ([[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|Istat]])</ref>
| population_total    = 4376
| population_as_of    = 31 December 2019
| pop_density_footnotes = 
| population_demonym  = Loianesi
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_min_m     =
| elevation_max_m     =
| elevation_m         = 714
| twin1               = 
| twin1_country       = 
| saint               = 
| day                 =  
| postal_code         = 40050
| area_code           = 051
| website             = {{official website|http://www.comune.loiano.bologna.it/}}
| footnotes           = 
}}
'''Loiano''' ({{langx|egl|label=[[Bolognese dialect|Medial Mountain Bolognese]]|Lujèn}} {{IPA|egl|luˈjɛŋ|}}; {{langx|egl|label=[[Bolognese dialect|City Bolognese]]|Lujàn}}) is a town and ''[[comune]]'' of [[Metropolitan City of Bologna]] in the [[Emilia-Romagna]] region of [[Italy]] in the Tusco-Emilian Apennines at {{convert|714|m|ft}} above sea level.  Highway SS&nbsp;65 connects it to [[Bologna]], {{convert|35|km|mi}} to the north, and [[Florence]], {{convert|73|km|mi}} to the south.

It is the site of the astronomical observatory of the [[University of Bologna]], named after the astronomer [[Giovanni Domenico Cassini]].

At Val Sicura, within the territory of the commune, a shooting range founded in 1889 remains active.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.loiano.eu/ Official website] 
*[http://www.bo.astro.it/loiano/index.htm Loiano Astronomical Observatory]
*[http://www.bo.astro.it/loiano/weather/weatherloi.html Loiano webcam]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040821114801/http://www2.comune.bologna.it/bologna/comloian/tsn.html Loiano Shooting Range]

{{Province of Bologna}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna]]


{{EmiliaRomagna-geo-stub}}