Casalromano

Casalromano
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Mantua  (MN)
Local name	Casalrìma
Coordinates	45 ° 12 '  N , 10 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 12 '0 "  N , 10 ° 22' 0"  E
height	42  m slm
surface	11.9 km²
Residents	1,517 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	127 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	46040
prefix	0376
ISTAT number	020012
Patron saint	John
Website	Casalromano

Casalromano is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 1517 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Mantua in Lombardy . The municipality is located about 32 kilometers west-northwest of Mantua in the Parco dell'Oglio Sud and borders the provinces of Brescia and Cremona .

history

64 cm long post tip from the pile dwelling settlement Casalromano

Pile dwellings have been documented in the area of ​​the municipality since the Neolithic at the latest. In the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age , a grave was created in Fontanella Grazioli (2nd millennium BC), which is ascribed to the Remedello culture .

Celts can be identified in the Iron Age, followed by the Romans.

The medieval Casalromano is mentioned for the first time in a document from the year 1009, whereby the place, as usual in Bresciano, enjoyed a relatively high degree of autonomy. This emerges more clearly in sources from 1366 to 1368, in which a certain Umaldino de Azii and Vivaldino de Rizi appear as "Consulis Cummunis et hominum terrae de Casalirumano". There is also a Guglielmino de Salis as "Notarius et procurator nomine et etiam sindicus et sindacario nomine comunis et hominum terrae de Casalirumano". These and the representatives of the Isorella commune were asked by 'Sapienti', who headed the administration and court of Vaso Naviglio, to appear before the judge and assessor of the Podestà of Brescia. They refused to pay for the repair of Gavardo's Chiuse, or Ark.

From 1335, at the time of Luigi Gonzaga II , the first capitano perpetuo of Mantua , Casalromano, together with Fontanella and other places in the region, came into the sphere of interest of Mantua. Gradually, their legal situation changed so much that they became part of the Mantuan territory. The Statuto Alessandrino , which goes back to the Signore of Casalromano, Alessandro Gonzaga, and which was created in 1451, served as the basis. The conflicts between the Gonzaga branches repeatedly led to legal disputes in the region.

With the end of the Gonzaga in 1708, the community came to the Austrian Lombardy, but also got into the Spanish War of Succession with its compulsory contributions and levies.

In 1785 Casalromano and Fontanella came to the Canneto commune , seat of a praetur, even if the commune resisted. The frazione had 804 inhabitants at that time, including the 370 of Fontanella.

The priest Don Bartolomeo Grazioli , born on September 25, 1804 in Fontanella , after whom the neighboring town of Fontanella Mantovana was later renamed Fontanella Grazioli , was one of the liberal priests who were imprisoned by the Austrian government in 1852. Grazioli was imprisoned with Tito Speri and Carlo Montanari in the Castello di S. Giorgio and executed on March 3, 1853. Requests for mercy from the congregation in Verona and requests to Vienna were rejected. After the end of Austrian rule, his relics were distributed between the two villages.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Cenni storici , website of the municipality of Casalromano.

Web links

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