San Giorgio Bigarello
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Country | Italy | |
region | Lombardy | |
province | Mantua (MN) | |
Local name | San Sòrs Bigarèl | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 9 ′ N , 10 ° 49 ′ E | |
height | 25 m slm | |
surface | 24 km² | |
Residents | 11,880 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 495 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 46030 | |
prefix | 0376 | |
ISTAT number | 020057 | |
Popular name | Sangiorgesi | |
Patron saint | George | |
Website | www.comune.sangiorgiobigarello.mn.it |
San Giorgio Bigarello is a northern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 11,880 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Mantua in Lombardy . The municipality is located about three kilometers east of Mantua east of the Mincio or Parco del Mincio .
history
The Lovers of Valdaro are an approximately 6000 year old human skeleton couple that were discovered in 2007 in a Neolithic tomb in the district of Valdaro. Until 2018 the municipality was called San Giorgio di Mantova . On January 1, 2019, the previously independent municipality of Bigarello was incorporated and the name of the municipality was changed.
The old name of San Giorgio di Mantova goes back to a place that was destroyed during the Napoleonic Wars. Fortifications were built in its place to protect Mantuas.
traffic
In addition to the A22 autostrada ( Modena - Brenner ), Strada Statale 10 Padana Inferiore and west of the village of Mottella the former Strade Statali 236bis Goitese and 482 Alto Polesana run through the municipality .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.