Lagosanto

Lagosanto is a town with 4978 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Ferrara in northeast Italy.

Geographical location

Lagosanto is located half way between the two cities Codigoro in the north and in the south of Comacchio. Neighboring villages are the villages Marozzo and Vaccolino in the northwest and in the northeast and Volania in the south. The distance from Comacchio and Codigoro will be 9 kilometer; the provincial capital of Ferrara is 45 kilometers away.

History

The place Lagosanto originated in the 10th century over an initially very narrow strip of land between the lagoons of Comacchio ( Valli di Comacchio ) and those of Volano ( Valli di Volano ). In the strip of land there was a small lake (Lago ) on which the cenobite San Appiano lived. This was the reason for the choice of the name Lagosanto (Holy See).

As a result of draining campaigns in the lagoons of Comacchio and Volano in the 19th and 20th centuries gave the water of the lagoons back and they shrank in their surface expansion by about 50% (the comprehensive originally 18,000 acres of lagoons of Comacchio today have an extent of only approximately 9,000 acres ). Thus, the usable land mass grew quite considerably to around the town. With the newly acquired agricultural land was also the economic recovery. In addition to various crops, grapes are harvested in the region that are pressed to make the cuvée Bosco Eliceo. The place was a long time dispute between Comacchio and Ferrara.

Lagosanto is now a modern housing estate and has a large, modern hospital.

Attractions

• Drainage work of Marozzo - one of the oldest and most important drainage systems in the area of ​​the Province of Ferrara.