Ruocco ad Amay (BG)

Ad Amay c'è un solo Ruocco o ce ne sono altri  ?

L'iniziale del suo nome è F.

Amay (in vallone Ama) è un comune belga di 13.147 abitanti, situato nella provincia vallona di Liegi.

Amay is a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province of Liège. On January 1, 2006, Amay had a total population of 13,144. The total area is 27.61 km² which gives a population density of approximately 476 inhabitants per km². It owes its site to a ford of the Meuse that was still in use in the Middle Ages but had begun as a Gallo-Roman vicus of the civitas Tungrorum (Tongeren).

Famous inhabitants

·                    François Walther de Sluze (1622–1685), mathematician and abbot of Amay

·                    Zénobe Gramme (1824-1902), inventor of the dynamo

·                    Armand Rocour (1932-1988), filmmaker

Places of interest

·                    Castle of Jehay-Bodegnée, a 16th century castle