Monteleone di Spoleto

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Monteleone di Spoleto
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Monteleone di Spoleto (Italy)
Monteleone di Spoleto
Country Italy
region Umbria
province Perugia  (PG)
Coordinates 42 ° 39 '  N , 12 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 39 '5 "  N , 12 ° 57' 6"  E
height 978  m slm
surface 61.58 km²
Residents 580 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 9 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 06045
prefix 0743
ISTAT number 054031
Popular name Monteleonesi
Patron saint Nicholas of Myra (December 6th)
Website Monteleone di Spoleto
Panorama of Monteleone di Spoleto
Panorama of Monteleone di Spoleto

Monteleone di Spoleto is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 580 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Perugia in Umbria .

geography

Location of Polino in the province of Terni

The municipality is located about 69 kilometers southeast of the provincial and regional capital Perugia am Corno and borders directly on the provinces of Rieti ( Lazio ) and Terni . It lies in the climatic classification of Italian municipalities in Zone E, 2 914 GR / G.

The districts include Rescia (961 m, approx. 20 inhabitants), Ruscio (786 m, approx. 125 inhabitants) and Trivio (926 m, approx. 80 inhabitants).

The neighboring communities are Cascia , Ferentillo ( TR ), Leonessa ( RI ), Poggiodomo , Sant'Anatolia di Narco and Scheggino .

history

According to legend, founded by Achilles , the first settlement here should have existed from the 6th century BC at the latest. Traces of Roman settlement have been preserved in the Trivio district . Around 880 a castle was built by a Brufa , but it was destroyed again in 1100. The Republica Monte Leonis, proclaimed in 1535, had a short existence . Monteleone is known as the site of an Etruscan chariot that dates back to around 530 BC. Is dated. The car was found in 1903 and is now in the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. There is a copy in Monteleone.

traffic

The former Strada Statale 471 di Leonessa (now a provincial road) runs through the municipality from Cascia to Montereale .

Sons and daughters

  • Gino Reali (* 1948), Catholic clergyman and bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina

Web links

Commons : Monteleone di Spoleto  - 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.
  2. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) (PDF; 330 kB), accessed on July 21, 2015 (Italian)
  3. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Perugia, accessed on July 21, 2015 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Official website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on the Etruscan chariot , accessed on July 21, 2015 (English)