Pegognaga

Pegognaga
Country	Italy
region	Lombardy
province	Mantua  (MN)
Local name	Pegügnàga
Coordinates	45 ° 0 ′  N , 10 ° 51 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  E
height	22  m slm
surface	46.69 km²
Residents	7,011 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	150 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	46020
prefix	0376
ISTAT number	020039
Popular name	Pegognaghesi
Patron saint	Lawrence of Rome
Website	Pegognaga

Pegognaga is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 7011 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Mantua in Lombardy . The municipality is located about 19 kilometers south-southeast of Mantua . The Po flows about 6 kilometers north of the village.

history

The name of the place and the community is said to go back to a Roman patrician named Pecunius , who set up a farm here in the 1st century AD. In the 4th century the place with the name Flexum is proven.

In San Giacomo Maggiore church dedicated in the district Polesine is the painting Martirio di San Giacomo and Josiah of cigoli (1605, oil on canvas, 305 x 215 cm).

Daughters and sons of the church

• Augusto Bertazzoni (1876–1972), Roman Catholic Bishop of Potenza and Marsico Nuovo
• Cesare Moretti sr. (1885 – unknown), track cyclist

traffic

The municipality is located on the A22 autostrada which , coming from Modena , leads to Mantua and Verona and on to the Brenner Pass. There is a train station on the Suzzara – Ferrara railway line .

Web links

Commons : Pegognaga  - 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.