San Lazzaro di Savena

San Lazzaro di Savena is an Italian commune in the province of Bologna with 31 466 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012).

Geography

The municipality of San Lazzaro di Savena located on the Via Emilia, six kilometers southeast of the city center of Bologna. The territory of the municipality extends to the plains towards and at the foot of hills foothills of the province. From the urban network of the provincial capital of Bologna San Lazzaro di Savena just across the river Savena, on the left bank of the eponymous district of Bologna begins.

The watercourses Zena, Idice and Savena, after whom San Lazzaro di Savena got part of its name, flowing through the community.

In the area of ​​the municipality, the Grotta della Spipola ( " Grotto of Spipola " ) lie with their sinkhole and the gipsigen outcrops of districts Farneto and Croara that make a very interesting karst occur (there are about 50 to each other by an even six -kilometer-long underground river associated caves and natural voids), the Parco Naturale dei Gessi Bolognesi by e calanchi dell'Abbadessa ( natural Park of gypsum stones of Bologna and the mountain ridges of the Abbadessa ) is protected.

History

The area has been inhabited since ancient times. There are numerous other findings, which come from the Bronze Age. Together with nearby Castenaso was San Lazzaro di Savena witness the thriving Villanova culture. In San Lazzaro, the Prehistoric Museum " Luigi Donini " was recently opened, gathered the various remarkable finds from the ancient times.

A document proving that since 1214 an epidemic station was present, which, as usual at this time, was outside the city, in order to isolate the patients and restrict epidemics.

Later the town developed around the church and the hospital and so was an independent village at the time of Napoleon I. (1810 ). The village was later annexed by Bologna; in 1872 it was ( with the help of Carlo Berti Pichat ) again independent. Today, after the construction expansion in the 1970s, San Lazzaro is one of the most densely populated municipalities in the province of Bologna and has a large industrial area.

Board of Directors

  • Mayor: Marco Macciantelli, from 06/ 2004 | 06 /2009 re-elected as a syndic
  • Town Hall: telephone exchange 051 62.28.111
  • Climatic classification: zona E, 2210 GR / G

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town:

  • Arnaldo Benfenati, cycling Drive
  • Sofia Vanni Rovighi, historian
  • Adriana Zarri, theologian

Residents:

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