Montegridolfo

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Montegridolfo
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Montegridolfo (Italy)
Montegridolfo
Country Italy
region Emilia-Romagna
province Rimini  (RN)
Local name Mont-Gridòlf
Coordinates 43 ° 52 '  N , 12 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 51 '31 "  N , 12 ° 41' 6"  E
height 250  m slm
surface 6.8 km²
Residents 996 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 146 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 47837
prefix 0541
ISTAT number 099009
Popular name Montegridolfesi
Patron saint Rochus de Montpellier (August 16)
Website Montegridolfo
The clock tower (Torre dell'Orologio), one of the city gates of Montegridolfo

Montegridolfo is an Italian municipality with 996 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Rimini in Emilia-Romagna . The municipality is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

geography

Montegridolfo is located on a ridge on the southern border of Emilia-Romagna between the Conca rivers in the north and Foglia in the south, about 23.5 kilometers south-southeast of Rimini , 25 km west of Pesaro and 25 km north of Urbino. The ridge forms the border with the province of Pesaro and Urbino ( Marche ).

Attractions

  • The medieval town center with its city walls
  • Church of San Rocco from the Quattrocento , originally a hospital, with pictures from the Quattro, Cinque and Seicento
  • The “Museo della Linea die Goti” ( Gothic Line Museum) with rich material on the section of the front line in World War II between the German Wehrmacht and the Allies in 1944
  • Santuario della Beata Vergine delle Grazie in the Trebbio district, a pilgrimage church with a miraculous image ( apparition of the Blessed Virgin ) by Pompeo Morganti (1549)

Culture

In 1987 the conductor Gustav Kuhn founded a summer academy for singers called Accademia di Montegridolfo , which he later called Accademia di Montegral and which he moved to Lucca to the Convento dell'Angelo in 2000 . The academy served Kuhn as a reservoir of young talent for soloists at the Erl Festival, which he directed until 2018 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed August 6, 2017 (Italian).

Web links

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