Montegiardino
Montegiardino
Munt Giardêin (Romagnol) | |
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 Panoramic view over Montegiardino | |
-Bandiera.svg?lang=en) Flag -Stemma.svg?lang=en) Coat of arms | |
 Location of Montegiardino in San Marino | |
  Montegiardino | |
| Coordinates: 43°54′32″N 12°29′04″E / 43.90889°N 12.48444°E | |
| Country | San Marino |
| Curazie | List |
| Government | |
| • Capitano | Giacomo Rinaldi (Insieme per Montegiardino; since 2014) |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.31 km2 (1.28 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 340 m (1,120 ft) |
| Population (May 2018) | |
• Total | 1,015[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST |
| Postal code | 47898 |
| Climate | Cfa |
| Website | gov.sm |
Montegiardino (lit. 'Mountain garden'; Romagnol: Munt Giardêin) is one of the nine castelli of San Marino. It occupies an area of 3.31 km2 (1.28 sq mi) and is the smallest castello in the country by both land area and population. As of 2023, it had a population of 1,015 inhabitants.
History
[edit]The territory of San Marino consisted only of Mount Titano until 1463. The nation became part of an alliance against Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, the Lord of Rimini, who was defeated.[2] The Pope Pius II gifted the towns of Fiorentino, Montegiardino, and Serravalle to San Marino as a reward for being part of the alliance. Later, Faetano voluntarily joined the country, and the boundaries have remained the same ever since.[3] The people of San Marino besieged the castle walls of Montegiardino to wrest it from Malatesta's army. The siege continued for a long time, until it was eventually dismantled under the orders of Federico da Montefeltro. It was only recovered almost two centuries later in 1647 by the nearby church.[4] The coat of arms of Montegiardino consists of a traditional blue colored shield with curved lower border, and a yellow trimontium with three red flowers with stems and two green leaves.[4]
Geography
[edit]The country of San Marino is divided into nine municipalities (castelli) for administration.[5] [6] With a land area of 3.31 km2 (1.28 sq mi), Montegiardino is the smallest castello in the country and the smallest top-level country subdivision in the world by area.[7] The region had a population of 967 inhabitants in 2018, which increased to 1,015 in September 2023.[1][8] It is the smallest subdivision of the country by population.[1] It borders the San Marino municipalities Fiorentino and Faetano and the Italian municipalities Monte Grimano and Sassofeltrio.[4]
Montegiardino is sub-divided into one curazia amongst the 44 secondary sub-divisions of the country.[9] Cerbaiola the only curazia in the castello.[10] Montegiardino is home to some of the departments of the University of the Republic of San Marino, the country's only university. Antica Locanda Modà inside Palazzo Mengozzi, a 17th-century building decorated by Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna and classified as a national heritage site by the local government is present in the region.[4]
International relations
[edit]Montegiardino is twinned with:
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Bollettino di Statistica III Trimestre 2023" [Statistics Bulletin Third Trimester 2023] (PDF). Office of economic planning, data processing, and statistics, Republic of San Marino (in Italian). 2023. p. 9. Retrieved 9 February 2023.
- ^ "Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
- ^ "San Marino". Government of United States. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Montegiardino". San Marino Site (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ Nguyen, Nam H. (2018). La evolución de The World Factbook 2018 en español: The Evolution of The World Factbook 2018 In Spanish (in Spanish). Nam H Nguyen.
- ^ Agency, Central Intelligence (2008). The CIA World Factbook 2009. Skyhorse Publishing. p. 563. ISBN 978-1-60239-282-3.
- ^ "9 Castelli di San Marino: mappa e stemmi" [9 Castles of San Marino: Maps and coats of arms]. San Marino Site (in Italian). 10 October 2014. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Population, 2018" (PDF). Office of economic planning, data processing, and statistics, Republic of San Marino. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
- ^ Rattini, Maurizio; Venturini, Gian Carlo; Volpinari, Antonio L. (21 March 1997). "Regolamento per la disciplina della campagna elttorale". Elezioni (in Italian). Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
- ^ "Montegiardino". San Marino Web (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Rinnovato il gemellaggio tra Montegiardino (San Marino) e Bléré (Francia)" (in Italian). 23 September 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
- ^ "Bléré - Montegiardino, le jumelage prend le nom de San-to" (in French). 30 January 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
External links
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Media related to Montegiardino at Wikimedia Commons
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