Albano Laziale

Albano Laziale
Country	Italy
region	Lazio
Metropolitan city	Rome  (RM)
Coordinates	41 ° 44 '  N , 12 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 43 '42 "  N , 12 ° 39' 33"  E
height	400  m slm
surface	24 km²
Residents	40,879 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	1,703 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	00041
prefix	06
ISTAT number	058003
Popular name	Albanensi
Patron saint	St. Pancras
Website	Albano Laziale
Panorama of Albano Laziale, left behind the Palais des Papes in Castel Gandolfo

Albano Laziale is an Italian city that belongs to the metropolitan city of Rome in the Italian region of Lazio , with 40,879 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Surname

The name Albano is derived from the ancient Ager Albanus . In 1872 the place was given the addition Laziale to distinguish it from Italian places of the same name .

geography

Location of Albano Laziale in the metropolitan city of Rome

Albano Laziale is located 25 km southeast of Rome , 12 km south of Frascati and 23 km from the Tyrrhenian Sea near Torvaianica (municipality of Pomezia) . The city, which is located in the Alban Hills above Lake Alban , belongs to the municipalities of the Castelli Romani and is part of the Parco Regionale dei Castelli Romani nature park .

While the core city lies on the edge of the crater of Lake Alban, the districts of Cecchina and Pavona extend on the plain at the foot of the Alban Mountains. The municipality extends over a height of 110 to 565  m slm .

The community is located in earthquake zone 2 (medium risk).

The neighboring municipalities are, clockwise: Castel Gandolfo , Rocca di Papa , Ariccia , Ardea , Pomezia and Rome .

history

After the destruction of Alba Longa in 665 BC. The Ager Albanus became the preferred area for the villas of Roman patricians. In 197 AD, Emperor Septimius Severus built the Castra Albana, a legionary camp for the Legio II Parthica , which became the nucleus of today's city.

Albano has been a bishopric since 464 at the latest. During this time the Church of San Pietro was built in the ruins of the baths using stones from the castle. In 964 Emperor Otto I handed Albano over to the Savelli family , with whom it remained until 1697, when it was confiscated by the Apostolic Chamber .

During the Second World War , the city was badly damaged in 1944 bombings by the American Air Force .

Population development

year	1881	1901	1921	1936	1951	1971	1991	2001	2011
Residents	6,770	8,296	10,269	11,469	14,775	24,428	31,399	33,692	38,368

Source ISTAT

religion

Albano is the seat of the Catholic, suburbicarian diocese of Albano . The majority of the inhabitants belong to the Roman Catholic Church . The city has eight parishes, four in the city center, two in the Pavona fraction and one each in the Cancelliera and Cecchina fractions.

politics

Palazzo Savelli, seat of the city council

Mayor and City Council

Nicola Marini ( PD ) was elected mayor in April 2010 and confirmed in office in May 2015. His center-left alliance also has the majority in the municipal council with 15 out of 24 seats. He replaced Marco Mattei ( Rosa Bianca ) (2000–2010), who was no longer running.

Town twinning

Sister cities of Albano Laziale are

• Belgard in Pomerania (Poland), since 2004
• Köslin in Pomerania (Poland), since 2004
• Alytus in Lithuania since 2004
• Savelli (Calabria) in Italy
• Homburg (Saar) in Germany since 2018

traffic

• Albano, 19 km from the driveway Monteporzio Catone on the feeder road to the motorway A1 Autostrada del Sole removed.
• Albano has been on the Via Appia since ancient times , which today connects the town with Rome as state road 7 Via Appia .
• The Via Nettunense (state road SS 207), which crosses the Pavona district, leads to Anzio (41 km) by the sea.

• The terminus of the FL4 Rome – Albano regional train line is in Albano . The Pavona, Cancelleria and Cecchina stations are on the FL4 Rome – Velletri regional train line .

• The nearest international airport, Rome Fiumicino, is 43 km away.

Attractions

• The Roman gate Porta Praetoria refers to the stationing of the 2nd Parthian Legion , which was relocated to the Alban Mountains after the war against the Parthians.
• The cathedral of San Pancrazio with a facade from 1772 is the bishopric of the diocese of Albano . The church itself goes back to a building that Pope Leo III. (795–815) built on the ruins of a pre-Christian basilica .

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  San Pancrazio Cathedral

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  Roman Porta Praetoria

sons and daughters of the town

• Giorgio Battistelli (* 1953), composer
• Cesare De Sanctis (1824–1916), composer, church musician and music teacher
• Michele Di Pietro (1747–1821), Cardinal to the Curia
• Paolo Giannini , Abbot of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata
• Antonio Mancini (1852–1930), painter
• Bruno Monti (1930–2011), racing cyclist
• Simone Pepe (* 1983), soccer player
• Luigi Antonio Sabbatini (1732–1809), composer and music theorist
• Viktor von Seiller (1880–1969), officer
• Piero Taruffi (1906–1988), motorcycle and automobile racing driver and designer
• Maurizio Silvi (* 1949), make-up artist
• Luigi Traglia (1895–1977), cardinal

literature

• Christoph Henning: Lazio. The land around Rome. With walks in the Eternal City (= DuMont art travel guide ). 3rd, updated edition. DuMont, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6031-2 .
• Anton Henze, Kunibert Bering, Gerhard Wiedmann: Art guide Rome. 5th, revised edition. Philipp Reclam GmbH, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-010402-5 .
• Lawrence Richardson Jr .:  Albano Laziale, Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
• Gero von Wilpert : Goethe-Lexikon (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 407). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-40701-9 , p. 12 (penultimate entry).

Web links

Commons : Albano Laziale  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Albano Laziale on www.comuni-italiani.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Italian civil defense
3. ^ Christian Hülsen : Albanus ager . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1307 f.
4. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT . Population statistics from the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, as of December 31, 2011.
5. ^ Diocese of Albano (Italian), accessed April 18, 2017
6. ^ Information from the Ministry of the Interior
7. ↑ La Repubblica , accessed June 22, 2015.
8. ↑ - Comune Italia: Comune di Albano Laziale , accessed on April 18, 2017
9. ↑ Press release of the City of Homburg April 24, 2018, accessed on December 17, 2018