Mondragone (Campania)

Mondragone
Country	Italy
region	Campania
province	Caserta  (CE)
Coordinates	41 ° 6 '  N , 13 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 6 '0 "  N , 13 ° 53' 0"  E
surface	54 km²
Residents	29,808 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	552 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	81034
prefix	0823
ISTAT number	061052
Popular name	Mondragonesi
Patron saint	Madonna Incaldana
Website	Mondragone
Mondragone Beach

Mondragone is a small Italian town with 29,808 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Caserta , which belongs to the region of Campania . The parish has an area of ​​54.40 square kilometers and is 10 meters above sea level.

North of the small town is the district of Le Vagnole.

history

In Mondragone there is an archaeological museum ( Museo Civico di Mondragone ) that shows evidence of the city and its surroundings. Evidence from the epoch between the Stone Age (around 23,000 years before Christ) and the Middle Ages is kept here. The collection of objects from the Roman colony civium romanorum sinuessa forms a special part of the collection .

The city gained a certain fame beyond its region because a marble was quarried in its area , which was used to decorate the palace of Caserta .

Web links

Commons : Mondragone  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality (Italian)
• Statistical data on Mondragone (Italian)
• Archaeological Museum in Mondragone (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Roberto de Gennaro et al .: Discovering the stone heritage of southern Italy: technical properties of the Mondragone marble from Campania region . In: Environmental Geology Volume 44, Issue 3 / June 2003, pp. 266-276. Abstract, accessed December 1, 2009