Castiglione dei Pepoli

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Castiglione dei Pepoli
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Castiglione dei Pepoli (Italy)
Castiglione dei Pepoli
Country Italy
region Emilia-Romagna
Metropolitan city Bologna  (BO)
Local name Castión
Coordinates 44 ° 9 '  N , 11 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 8 '32 "  N , 11 ° 9' 30"  E
height 691  m slm
surface 65 km²
Residents 5,448 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 84 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 40035
prefix 0534
ISTAT number 037022
Website Castiglione dei Pepoli

Castiglione dei Pepoli is an Italian commune located in the Emilia-Romagna region 57 kilometers south of the city of Bologna , with which it is connected by the Val di Setta road and other motorway arteries. The municipality has 5448 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019), has an area of ​​65.8 square kilometers and is 691 meters above sea level. It is a member of the Comunità Montana Cinque Valli Bolognesi and is located on the Setta River .

View of the village of Baragazza

The main town lies on the ridge of Monte Gatta ; All around it extends a fairly wide area divided into towns, including Baragazza , Lagaro and Roncobilaccio . The natural boundaries of the municipal area are delimited in the south by the Apennine arch, which extends from the village of San Giacomo to Lake Brasimone , in the west to the Setta Brook, in the north to the confluence of the Brasimone and the Setta east of the Brasimone.

history

The main town is of Roman origin. The name comes from the Latin castellum , a diminutive of castrum (military area), whose existence was only attested shortly after the year 1000. Until the 19th century, its name was accompanied by the name Dei Gatti : the assumptions about the meaning can be traced back to an old name for the word forest ( Celtic gatt and Longobard gauta ).

The current name dei Pepoli comes from a royal decree of 1830 in which the noble family house of Bologna was named the Pepoli . For a long time the area belonged to the Count Albertis from Prato and Mangona. Because of the repeated and violent attacks by the nearby cities of Bologna and Florence , which the Albertis could not repel, the whole area was handed over by the Albertis to the Pepolis of Bologna in 1340.

Actually, Bologna and then Florence ruled the municipality until the middle of the 15th century. The feudal power of the Pepoli lasted until the Napoleonic era, when they swore by the republic. Shortly afterwards (1797) feudalism was abolished and the district was incorporated into the Cispadan Republic . In 1810 it was under the administration of Vergato and then it followed the events of Napoleon up to the Congress of Vienna , after which it was added to the Papal States.

In 1859 the community came to the Kingdom of Italy .

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Castiglione dei Pepoli  - 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.