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Signa is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about west of Florence. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 16,809 and an area of .
The municipality of Signa contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Colombaia, Lecore, Sant'Angelo a Lecore and San Mauro a Signa.
Signa borders the following municipalities: Campi Bisenzio, Carmignano, Lastra a Signa, Poggio a Caiano, Scandicci.
Signa is a typical Tuscan town. On the day after Easter, there is an important religious festival in honour of the Beata Giovanna. There is a procession that parades in the streets of Signa, and many people wear old costumes.
In Giacomo Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, the "molini di Signa" (mills of Signa) are the most coveted by his relatives of Buoso Donati's properties.
The anonymous Master of Signa was from the town. Other natives include the artists Bruno Catarzi, Giuseppe Santelli, Raffaello Fossi, Alimondo Ciampi, and Alvaro Cartei; the academics Tommaso Bisagno and Boncompagno da Signa; Blessed Giovanna da Signa; the journalist Piergiorgio Branzi; and the actor Giancarlo Gori.
Signa is an opera originally conceived in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, with revisions by H.A. Rudall and Frederic Edward Weatherly after Ouida, with an Italian translation by G.A. Mazzucato, first performed in a reduced three-act version at the Teatro Dal Verme, Milan on 12 November 1893. It was later given in a two-act version at Covent Garden, London on 30 June 1894.
Usage examples of "signa".
La vieille lui fit signe du doigt de se taire: les chasseurs vinrent alors jeter le daim mort aux pieds du capitaine Pamphile.
Boris the recipient, Ivan and Igor the signa tories, and a woman called Alexandra Petrovna.
Atop the little white church, Signa and his two companions continued to stand guard as the darkness descended over Ashton, deeper and colder with each passing moment.
Tal, Captain of the Host, joined Signa and the other sentries at their concealed position.
Tal, Signa, and the other sentries could see the explosion from where they stood.
On top of the church, Signa and his warriors refused to bend or back down.
Lucius dropped by with a sizeable flock of demons just in time for the service, but Signa would not step aside.
And the first roll call of the Remnant took place as the angels and demons watched: Krioni and Triskal stood at the posts right beside Hank and Mary while Signa and his squad, now numbering ten, kept a hedge about the building.
Again Lucius had carried on a bitter argument with Signa, trying to gain admittance.
Just then, with a very low, stealthy trajectory, Signa floated in for a landing.
At Salviatis Villa delle Selve in the hills of Signa, fifteen miles west of Florence, Galileo spent enough time to write the better part of two booksBodies in Water and Sunspot Letterswhile convalescing from his typical ills.