Segni
Segni | |
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| Città di Segni | |
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  Segni Location o Segni in Italy | |
| Coordinates: 41°41′N 13°01′E / 41.683°N 13.017°E | |
| Kintra | Italy |
| Region | Lazio |
| Province | Roum |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Stefano Corsi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 61 km2 (24 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 668 m (2,192 ft) |
| Population (31 May 2012)[1] | |
| • Total | 9,375 |
| • Density | 150/km2 (400/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Segnini |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 00037 |
| Diallin code | 06 |
| Patron saunt | San Bruno |
| Saunt day | July 18 |
| Website | Offeecial wabsteid |
Segni (in Laitin Signia) is an Italian toun an comune locatit in Lazio. The ceety is situatit on a hilltop in the Lepini Muntains, an owerleuks the valley o the Sacco River.
History
[eedit | eedit soorce]Early history
[eedit | eedit soorce]Accordin tae auncient Roman soorces, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the seivent king o Roum, established a Roman colony at the toun, then kent as Signia.[2] Addeetional colonists wur reportitly sent thare in 495 BC.[3]
The auncient airchitectural remains at the steid date maistly frae the Republican period. Thir include a circuit o fortification waws biggit uisin polygonal masonry. The waws incorporatit a seestem o gates, includin the Porta Saracena which is covered bi a muckle monolithic airchitrave. Atop the auncient acropolis o Segni sits the podium o the temple o Juno Moneta, which nou supports a Medieval kirk o Saunt Peter (tent century).
Later history
[eedit | eedit soorce]On several occasions Segni servit as a place o refuge for papes, an the mid-twalt century Eugene III erectit a palace thare. In the twalt century it came intae possession o the Coonts o Marsi, hereditary enemies o the Orsini. The faimily cried de' Conti producit several popes (Innocent III, Gregory IX an Alexander IV) an mony cardinals. In 1558 Segni wis sackit bi the forces o the Duke o Alba in the war against Pape Paul IV; immense buity wis captured, as the indwallers o the ither touns o the Campagna haed fled thither. Politeecian Giulio Andreotti wis born in Segni in 1919.
Main sichts
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Co-cathedral o Santa Maria Assunta, biggit in the early 17t century on the umwhile temple o St. Bruno. The bell touer is frae the 11t century. The interior haes a pentin bi Francesco Cozza.
- Polygonal waws.
- Auncient acropolis
Twin touns
[eedit | eedit soorce]Mykines, Greece
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Population data from Istat
- ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 1.56; Dionysius of Halicarnassus 4.63
- ↑ Livy, Ab urbe condita, 2:21
Sources
[eedit | eedit soorce]- De Rossi, G.M. (1982). Segni.
- Cifarelli, Francesco Maria (2003). Il tempio di Giunone Moneta sull'acropoli di Segni: storia, topografia e decorazione architettonica.
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Quilici, L., S. Quilici Gigli, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, S. Gillies. "Places: 423072 (Signia)". Pleiades. Retrieved 8 Mairch 2012.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link)