Coccaglio

Coccaglio is a municipality with 8626 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Brescia, in the Italian region of Lombardy. The neighboring municipalities are Castrezzato, Chiari, Cologne, Erbusco and Rovato.

Bronze Age finds and a Gallo- Celtic grave are testimony of early colonization. The medieval wall follows the plan of a Roman castrum. Coccaglio was testified at the beginning of the 13th century " new road " between Brescia and Bergamo. 1326 was the place under the rule of Azzo Visconti. 1426 Coccaglio came to the mainland territories of the Serenissima, of which it won several tax privileges. In May 1509, Louis XII held. pillaged the village camp in March 1528 here the mercenaries of Duke Henry II of Brunswick. The madrigal composer Luca Marenzio was most probably born here in 1553. From Coccaglio came also the Franciscan Andrea Manente († 1684), author of a Life of Saint Faustinus and a history of Venetian companies in the Byzantine Empire, and the Capuchin Bonaventura ( 1713-1778 ) and Viatore Bianchi ( 1706-1793 ). During the Second Italian War of Independence, the Austrians closed on June 11, 1859 from from Coccaglio, Garibaldi moved the following day in one place.

In a Venetian report of 1610 1.800 inhabitants are noted. Since the 1991 census with a population of 6501, the population is steadily growing trend. 30 % of residents are in dependent employment, of which around 75 % of employers in the municipal area, mostly in the manufacturing sector.

A rail link to Brescia Built in 1854, the extension to Bergamo followed in 1857.