Casaloldo
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Country | Italy | |
region | Lombardy | |
province | Mantua (MN) | |
Local name | Casalòlt | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 15 ′ N , 10 ° 29 ′ E | |
height | 45 m slm | |
surface | 16.84 km² | |
Residents | 2,755 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 164 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 46040 | |
prefix | 0376 | |
ISTAT number | 020011 | |
Popular name | Casaloldesi | |
Patron saint | Gordianus and Epimachus | |
Website | Casaloldo |
Casaloldo is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 2755 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Mantua in Lombardy . The municipality is located about 27 kilometers west-northwest of Mantua on the Tartaro .
history
The area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age . The first reliable mention of the place dates back to the year 964. In the Middle Ages the castle - built at the end of the 11th to the beginning of the 12th century - was the seat of the Counts of Casalodi, one of numerous branches of the Counts Ugoni-Longhi. Since Count Alberto I Casaloldo (approx. 1165–1218 / 19) became a retainer for Otto IV , they supported the German emperors as Ghibellines . They lived mostly in Mantua , where they also provided a bishop with Filippo (approx. 1240–1303). In the second half of the 13th century they had to submit to their former vassals, the Gonzaga , who rose to become lords of Mantua. The family died out in Brescia around 1400.
Only a stone gate tower from the 15th century when the city came to the Republic of Venice remains of the castle, which was once built on a moth made of wood and earth .
A battle between the troops of the Marquis of Mantua, Gianfrancesco II Gonzaga , and the Republic of Venice took place near Casaloldo on May 10, 1509 , when the Gonzaga wanted to seize the city.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.