Monte Porzio Catone

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Monte Porzio Catone
coat of arms
Monte Porzio Catone (Italy)
Monte Porzio Catone
Country Italy
region Lazio
Metropolitan city Rome  (RM)
Coordinates 41 ° 49 '  N , 12 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 48 '59 "  N , 12 ° 42' 56"  E
height 451  m slm
surface 9 km²
Residents 8,666 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 963 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 00078
prefix 06
ISTAT number 058064
Popular name Monteporziani
Patron saint Sant'Antonino Martire
Website Monte Porzio Catone

Monte Porzio Catone is an Italian commune in the metropolitan city of Rome in the Lazio region with 8666 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is located 30 kilometers east of Rome .

geography

Monte Porzio Catone is located on the edge of the Alban Mountains and is a member of the Comunità Montana dei Castelli Romani e Prenestini .

history

The medieval settlement belonged successively to the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome, then to the Annibaldi , from 1581 to the Altemps and finally from 1613 to the Borghese .

Population development

year 1881 1901 1921 1936 1951 1971 1991 2001
Residents 1,725 1,981 2,432 2,911 3,080 4,041 7,452 8,221

Source: ISTAT

politics

Massimo Pulcini (Lista Civica: Viviamo Monte Porzio) was elected Mayor on May 26, 2019.

Attractions

  • The former local rule of the Borghese family is represented by the wide but not very deep Palazzo Borghese with a handsome arched portal in which dragons and eagles allude to the Borghese coat of arms.
  • The parish church of San Gregorio Magno has a high facade and a magnificent high baroque interior in the form of a Greek cross with a transept, in which two large altar paintings can be seen. A high wooden pulpit rises in front of the apse. A painting with Pope Saint Gregory the Great hangs in a handsome altar front on the rear wall of the apse.
  • On the outskirts is the Eremo di Camaldoli, a convent of the Camaldolese monks with outbuildings, a church and thirteen individual monks' houses with gardens.

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Monte Porzio Catone  - 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.