Rodengo-Saiano

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Rodengo-Saiano
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Rodengo-Saiano (Italy)
Rodengo-Saiano
Country Italy
region Lombardy
province Brescia  (BS)
Local name Rodéngh-Saià
Coordinates 45 ° 36 ′  N , 10 ° 7 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  E
height 176  m slm
surface 12 km²
Residents 9,841 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 820 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 25050
prefix 030
ISTAT number 017163
Popular name Rodenghesi, Saianesi
Patron saint San Nicola
Website Brescia

Rodengo-Saiano is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 9841 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Brescia in Lombardy . The municipality is located about 11.5 kilometers northwest of Brescia in the Franciacorta . In 1927 the municipalities of Rodengo and Saiano were merged.

Personalities

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Rodengo-Saiano is halfway on the former Strada Statale 510 Sebina Orientale (now a provincial road) from Brescia to Lake Iseo . The nearest train station is a few kilometers away in Paderno Franciacorta .

Parish partnership

Rodengo-Saiano has had a partnership with the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality of Kürten (Germany) since 1999 .

Great cloister of the abbey
San Nicola Abbey Church

Attractions

A Cluniac monastery had existed in Rodengo since around 1100 and was consecrated to St. Nicholas . In the early late Middle Ages, monastery life there fell into disrepair, so that in the 15th century the old abbey was handed over to monks of the Reformed order of the Olivetans. The new monks arranged for the imposing monastery to be rebuilt. The current buildings date from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century. In 1797 the monastery was suppressed. It was not until 1969 that was Olivetans - Abbey San Nicola repopulated again by monks of the Order. The abbey church and the great cloister from the 15th century deserve special attention .

Web links

Commons : Rodengo-Saiano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Film about the history and art of the Olivetan Abbey of San Nicola

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.