Sassoferrato (brands)

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Sassoferrato
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Sassoferrato (Italy)
Sassoferrato
Country Italy
region Brands
province Ancona  (AN)
Coordinates 43 ° 26 '  N , 12 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 25 '39 "  N , 12 ° 51' 24"  E
height 386  m slm
surface 135.21 km²
Residents 6,991 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 52 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 60041
prefix 0732
ISTAT number 042044
Popular name Sassoferratesi
Patron saint Hugo degli Atti
Website Sassoferrato

Sassoferrato is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 6,991 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Ancona in the Marche region . The municipality is located about 56 kilometers west-southwest of Ancona and about 52 kilometers northeast of Perugia on the eastern side of the Apennines on Monte Strega . It is part of the Comunità montana dell'Esino Frasassi and borders the provinces of Pesaro and Urbino and Perugia .

history

The ancient city of Sentinum was near Sassoferrato . Here the Romans defeated the Samnites and Senones in the third Samnite War in 295 BC . The city was destroyed in 41 BC by a general of Augustus in the course of the civil war. However, it was soon rebuilt.

After Italy entered the war in June 1940, the fascist regime set up around 50 internment camps ( campo di concentramento ) throughout Italy . A warehouse was established in Sassoferrato in 1942. It was located in a former convent, Santa Croce , not far from the village center. The internees were exclusively members of the Slavic minorities in the Italian border provinces and Yugoslavs from the areas occupied and annexed by Italy. After the fall of fascism, there were 37 Slovenian and Croatian inmates from the provinces of Gorizia , Fiume and Zara in the camp. Under the RSI , the warehouse was temporarily reused.

Personalities

Premio Monte Strega

The Premio Monte Strega is awarded to outstanding personalities who were born in Sassoferrato or who are associated with Sassoferrato.

traffic

Together with the neighboring municipality of Arcevia, there is a train station on the railway line from Urbino to Fabriano .

Web links

Commons : Sassoferrato  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, I Campi del duce. L'internamento civile nell'Italia fascista (1940-1943) , Torino 2004 (Einaudi), pp. 190-191
  3. ^ Premio Monte Strega - Storia , accessed on September 3, 2018.