Mazzano Romano

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Mazzano Romano
coat of arms
Mazzano Romano (Italy)
Mazzano Romano
Country Italy
region Lazio
Metropolitan city Rome  (RM)
Coordinates 42 ° 12 ′  N , 12 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 24 ′ 0 ″  E
height 200  m slm
surface 28 km²
Residents 3,107 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 111 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 00060
prefix 06
ISTAT number 058058
Popular name Mazzanesi
Patron saint San Nicola
Website mazzanoromano.rm.gov.it

Mazzano Romano is an Italian commune in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 3107 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is 44 km north of Rome .

geography

Mazzano Romano lies above the deeply carved gorge of the Treja, in the historical landscape of the Falisker . It is the seat of the Valle del Treja Natural Park , which extends over the municipality of Mazzano and the neighboring municipality of Calcata . The best- known natural spectacles are the Cascate di Monte Gelato .

The neighboring municipalities are Calcata ( VT ), Campagnano di Roma , Castel Sant'Elia (VT), Faleria (VT), Magliano Romano , Nepi (VT).

traffic

Mazzano is connected to the road network via Strada Stadale 2 Via Cassia , exit Sette Vene .

history

Numerous finds prove that the area of ​​Mazzano was already settled in the time of the Faliskians and Romans. The name Mazzano is said to be derived from the noble Roman family Matius . Mazzano only became documented when Alberich II , Duke of Spoleto, donated the place to the monastery of Santi Andrea e Gregorio in Rome in 945 , where it remained until 1526. It was then bought by the Orsini-Anguillara family, who sold it in 1599 to the later Cardinal Lelio Biscia. After his death in 1638, twenty years later it came to the family of the Marchesi del Drago, who owned the place until the land reform of the Ente Maremma in 1951. Since the award by Pope Gregory XVI. in 1832 they carried the title of Prince of Mazzano.

Since 1872 the municipality has officially been called Mazzano Romano .

Population development

year 1881 1901 1921 1936 1951 1971 1991 2001
Residents 588 933 1,189 1,298 1,475 1,626 2,182 2,536

Source: ISTAT

politics

Remo Marcatili ( Nuovo Impegno Nuove Prospettive Citizens List ) was elected mayor in June 2009. He replaced Luciano Litta (since 1999), who was no longer running. Angelo Mancinelli has been mayor since May 6, 2012; with the election on June 11, 2017, Nicoletta Irato will take his place.

Attractions

  • Of the old parish church of S. Nicola from 1563, the facade of which was ascribed to Vignola , only the remains of the choir with fragmentary altars remain. It was canceled in 1940 because of the risk of collapse. A modern successor church was built in the new district of Mazzanos.
  • The chapel of San Sebastiano to the west outside the historical center has frescoes on the left wall and the back wall, each showing a Madonna with child and saints.
  • In the center of the village rises the Palazzo Baronale of the Biscia family from the 16th century, whose gate includes their coat of arms.
  • A Faliskan sanctuary has been unearthed in the Narce district since 1985, the findings of which, especially clay masks and iron tools, have ended up in the Mazzano Museum.

Web links

Commons : Mazzano Romano  - 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.