Cividate Camuno (
Camunian: ) is an Italian ''
comune'' of 2,774 inhabitants (2011),
[ in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, in ]Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...
.
Geography
The territory of Cividate Camuno is bordered by several municipalities: to the east Bienno, on the north Breno and Malegno, to the west Piancogno, and south Esine and Berzo Inferiore.
History
Originally a Roman town, the ''Civitas Camunnorum'', Cividate Camuno was known as ''Civethate'' in the medieval period.
Between 1863 and 1887 Cividate assumed the name "Cividate Alpino", but because of bureaucratic confusion, in 1887 the village re-took the name "Cividate Camuno" .
Main sights
The main tourist sights of Cividate Camuno are:
* Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta, standing on the site of the baptismal chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist, which was replaced after the 11th century by the Romanesque church.
* Church of Santo Stefano. Commanding the countryside, it is accessed by a ladder with four flights with no other possibility of approach (the ladder is dated 1770). Archaeological excavations have reported pre-Christian elements.
* Medieval tower of the 12th-13th century
* Renaissance gates
* Museo nazionale della Valcamonica
The Roman park of the theatre and amphitheatre
File:Anfiteatro romano - Cividate Camuno (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg, Roman amphitheatre of Cividate Camuno
File:Calco statua principe-eroe - Piazza Fiamme Verdi - Cividate Camuno (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg, Copy of Roman statue in Cividate Camuno
File:Torre - Cividate Camuno (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg, Tower of Cividate Camuno
File:Stele cividate - M Bergamo (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg, Stele di Cividate Camuno, Archaeological Museum of Bergamo
Culture
The scütüm are in camunian dialect
Eastern Lombard is a group of closely related variants of Lombard, a Gallo-Italic dialect spoken in Lombardy, mainly in the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia and Mantua, in the area around Cremona and in parts of Trentino. Its main variants are Be ...
nicknames, sometimes personal, elsewhere showing the characteristic features of a community. The one which characterize the people of Cividate Camuno is ''Pàtate'', ''Bö'' or ''Maia Hüche''.
People
* Blessed Giuseppe Tovini
* Blessed Mosè Tovini
Blessed Mosè Tovini (27 December 1877 – 28 January 1930) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and was both the nephew and godson of Blessed Giuseppe Antonio Tovini.
He was beatified on 17 September 2006 in Brescia.
Biography
Mosè Tovini was ...
References
External links
Historical photos - Intercam
Historical photos - Lombardia Beni Culturali
Archaeological park with Roman theatre and amphitheatre and national museum
Cities and towns in Lombardy
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