San Benedetto Val di Sambro

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San Benedetto Val di Sambro
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San Benedetto Val di Sambro (Italy)
San Benedetto Val di Sambro
Country Italy
region Emilia-Romagna
Metropolitan city Bologna  (BO)
Local name San Bandàtt
Coordinates 44 ° 13 '  N , 11 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 13 '0 "  N , 11 ° 13' 0"  E
height 602  m slm
surface 66.74 km²
Residents 4,174 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 63 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 40048
prefix 0534
ISTAT number 037051
Popular name Sanbenedettesi
Patron saint Benedict of Nursia
Website San Benedetto Val di Sambro
View of the Pian del Voglio district
Memorial to the victims of the bombing of August 4th 1974 in the train station of San Benedetto Val di Sambro

San Benedetto Val di Sambro is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 4174 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Bologna in Emilia-Romagna . The municipality is located about 33 kilometers south-southwest of Bologna and belongs to the Comunità montana Cinque Valli Bolognesi . The Setta forms the eastern border of the municipality . With the Monte dei Cucchi (1139 meters) and the Monte Caparozzolo (1049 meters) there are two not insignificant peaks of the Apennines in the municipality.

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The San Benedetto Sambro-Castiglione Pepoli train station is on the Bologna-Florence line . On August 4, 1974, a bomb attack on the Italicus Express , the Rome - Munich night express train carried out by a right-wing extremist terror group, killed 12 people and 48 were injured.

This place was also in the spotlight in December 1984:

The A1 Autostrada runs through the municipality from Bologna via Florence to Rome .

personality

Web links

Commons : San Benedetto Val di Sambro  - 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.