Ostiglia

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Ostiglia
coat of arms
Ostiglia (Italy)
Ostiglia
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Mantua  (MN)
Local name Ustilia
Coordinates 45 ° 4 '  N , 11 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 4 '0 "  N , 11 ° 7' 0"  E
height 13  m slm
surface 39.7 km²
Residents 6,562 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 165 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 46035
prefix 0386
ISTAT number 020038
Popular name Ostigliesi
Patron saint Lawrence of Rome ; Anthony of Padua
Website Ostiglia

Ostiglia is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 6562 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Mantua in Lombardy . The municipality is located about 29 kilometers southeast of Mantua on the Po .

history

The village of Ostiglia operated under the name Hostilia in ancient times . The Via Claudia Augusta also ran through the village . In the Middle Ages and in modern times, different rulers ruled over the village (including the Veronese and the Scaliger , finally the Visconti and the Gonzaga ). In 1717 the castle was razed. In 1907 the Arnoldo Mondadori Editore company was founded here.

traffic

Ostiglia is a traffic junction: this is where the Strada Statale 482 Alto Polesine coming from Mantua meets the Strada Statale 12 dell'Abetone e del Brennero from Verona to Bologna . The Ostiglia stop, which opened in a new location in 2008, is on the Verona – Bologna railway line ; the former station was also served by the line to Treviso . Until 1934 there was a tram connection from Brescia via Mantua to Ostiglia. Ostiglia is on the Po cycle path.

Personalities

  • Cornelius Nepos (100–30 BC), historian
  • Regina Strinasacchi (1761–1839), violinist
  • Osvaldo Gnocchi Viani (born August 26, 1837 in Ostiglia, † January 8, 1917 in Milan ), politician, journalist, co-founder of the Italian Labor Party
  • Roberto Bonini (1934–2005), legal scholar, historian and university professor

Web links

Commons : Ostiglia  - 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. ↑ Maurizio Binaghi: Osvaldo Gnocchi Viani. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 12, 2007 , accessed March 19, 2020 .