Conselice
Conselice ( Cunsèls on Romagnol ) is a municipality with 9890 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Ravenna in the Italian region Emilia -Romagna, it is located 46 km east of Bologna and 38 km west of Ravenna.
Geography
Conselice located in the Po Valley south of the delta of the Po. Through the municipal area of the Sillaro flows.
It borders the following municipalities: Alfonsine, Argenta (FE), Imola (BO), Lugo, Massa Lombarda.
History
In ancient times the city was called Caput Silicis on a lagoon with a connection to the Adriatic Sea. Caput Silicis, means " At the end of Via Silicis ", where " Silicis " gravel called. She was a port city, which was important for trade in the city, an ancient city of the Etruscans, and was at the end of Via Selice, a Roman road which crosses the Via Emilia. The first known document in which the city is known as Portus de capite selcis, dates back to 1084 AD During this time the city belonged to Imola, which settled to trade with Venice over the harbor.
In the 14th century Conselice came to the Papal States, who extended it like a fortress. Already in 1395 it fell to the Este of Ferrara. 1598 came again to the Papal States until 1859, after a referendum joined the new Kingdom of Italy.
Demographics
Source: ISTAT
Policy
Maurizio Filippucci (PD ) was elected in June 2004 to the mayor. His center-left alliance also with 10 of 16 seats, the majority in the City Council.
Sister City
- France Bourgoin- Jallieu in the Rhône -Alpes
Sons and daughters of the town
Conselice is the birthplace of the poet and revolutionary Eleuterio Felice Foresti, later a professor at Columbia University and the University City of New York ( 1842), and United States Consulargenereal in Genoa (1856 ). Two local public schools are dedicated to him.