Urbisaglia

Urbisaglia
Country	Italy
region	Brands
province	Macerata  (MC)
Coordinates	43 ° 12 '  N , 13 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 12 '0 "  N , 13 ° 23' 0"  E
height	310  m slm
surface	22 km²
Residents	2,517 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	114 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	62010
prefix	0733
ISTAT number	043055
Popular name	Urbisalviensi
Patron saint	San Giorgio
Website	Urbisaglia

Urbisaglia is an Italian municipality of 2,517 inhabitants (December 31, 2019) in the Province of Macerata in the region marks (Italian Marche ). Its name goes back to the ancient predecessor settlement Urbs Salvia (Pollentinorum) .

The neighboring municipalities are Colmurano , Corridonia , Loro Piceno , Petriolo and Tolentino .

history

The place was in the ancient landscape of Picenum and was probably a settlement center for the Pollentini people in pre-Roman times, even if no corresponding archaeological finds have been made. Around 60 BC At the intersection of two important streets the city got its name after a Salvius; At the end of the 1st century AD it became a Roman colonia . At the beginning of the 5th century AD, Urbs Salvia was destroyed by Alaric .

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Urbisaglia was temporarily under the rule of the neighboring Tolentino until 1569 the Papal States was annexed.

The ancient settlement was east of modern Urbisaglia. The towering city wall with a circumference of 2 km is well preserved, as are the remains of numerous larger structures: an amphitheater , built at the end of the 1st century AD by the family of Senator Lucius Flavius ​​Silva Nonius Bassus from Urbs Salvia ; a theater, also from Flavian times; a bath facility ; an aqueduct , a cryptoporticus and a water reservoir. Excavations have recently taken place by the University of Macerata . Since 1999 an archaeological park with a size of about 40 hectares and an archaeological museum have been established.

After Italy entered the war in June 1940, the fascist regime set up an internment camp ( campo di concentramento ) in Urbisaglia . It was located in the stately Villa Giustiniani-Bandini , not far from the town center. The house was empty and had already been used as a prisoner of war camp during the First World War . The first internees were Italian Jews , followed by stateless and foreign Jews from Germany , Austria , Poland and Romania . In April 1941 members of the Slovene minority arrived in the Italian border provinces; a year later, Yugoslavs came from the territories annexed and occupied by Italy. Occasionally there were also "hostile foreigners" in Urbisaglia.

The Jewish internees enjoyed relative freedom of movement; Visits from relatives were allowed. Language courses were organized, a library and a small synagogue were set up, and an interned doctor was allowed to practice legally.

After the fall of Mussolini in July 1943, no instructions were issued about the whereabouts of the internment. After the armistice was announced on September 8, many internees fled the camp so as not to fall into the hands of the German occupation forces. On September 13th all internees still in the camp were officially released; on September 27th, however, the police headquarters ( questura ) in Macerata ordered her to return to the camp, where they were all taken away shortly afterwards by German soldiers. On March 31, 1944, the Jewish inmates came to Fossoli , from where they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau .

Attractions

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  Roman theater of
  Urbs Salvia

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  amphitheater

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  Cryptoporticus

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  Archaeological Museum

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  La Rocca (16th century fortress)

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  View inside the fortress

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  Army Museum in the Chiesa di San Biagio

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  Torre Civica , the city tower

literature

• Lidiano Bacchielli et al. a .: Studi su Urbisaglia Romana . Tipigraf Ed., Tivoli 1995 (Picus, Supplementi 5).
• Giuseppina Capodaglio: Statue e ritratti di età romana da "Urbs Salvia" . Libreria Cavour, Macerata 1994.
• Christiane Delplace: La romanisation du Picenum. L'exemple d'urbs Salvia . Rome 1993, ISBN 2-7283-0279-0 ( persee.fr - Collection de l'École Française de Rome, 177).
• Maria Federica Fenati: Lucio Flavio Silva Nonio Basso e la città di Urbisaglia . Is. di Storia Antica, Macerata 1995 ( Università degli Studi di Macerata , Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Storia Antica, 1).
• Roberto Perna: Urbs Salvia. Forma e urbanistica . L 'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 2006, ISBN 88-8265-340-4 (Città antiche in Italia, 7).
• Lawrence Richardson Jr .:  Urbs Salvia Pollentinorum (Urbisaglia) Marche, Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

Web links

Commons : Urbisaglia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Urbisaglia.com (Italian and English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ Annual report 2002 ( Memento of November 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 1.6 MB) of the German Archaeological Institute, p. 161.
3. ↑ Capogreco Carlo Spartaco, I Campi del duce. L'internamento civile nell'Italia fascista (1940-1943) , Torino 2004 (Einaudi), pp. 191-193; Klaus Voigt, Refuge on Revocation. Exil in Italien 1933-1945 , Volume 2, Stuttgart 1993 (Klett-Cotta), pp. 72-74