Nonantola
Sign in to saveNonantola (Modenese: ) is a town and comune in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is in the Po Valley about from Modena on the road to Ferrara.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Nonantola
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- File:Nonantola, torre dei modenesi 04.JPG
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Modenesi tower in town centre
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Nonantola-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.region
- Emilia-Romagna
- Italian comune.province
- Modena (MO)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- La Grande, Casette, Campazzo, Bagazzano, Rubbiara, Redù, Via Larga
- Italian comune.mayor
- Federica Nannetti
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 55.32
- Italian comune.population_total
- 15921
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 30 November 2017
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Nonantolani
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 20
- Italian comune.saint
- St. Sylvester
- Italian comune.day
- December 31
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 41015
- Italian comune.area_code
- 059
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Nonantola (Modenese: ) is a town and comune in the province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is in the Po Valley about from Modena on the road to Ferrara.
==History== In ancient times the territory of Nonantola was inhabited by the Celtic tribes, more specifically by the Boii. After the Roman conquest of Northern Italy (Cisalpine Gaul) the Boii were subjugated, and as a result they started to slowly speak Latin, giving rise to the local Gallo-Romance language, a variety of Gallo-Italic languages. Nonantola's history is strongly connected to the Benedictine monastery founded by the Lombards. Its creation in 752 totally supplanted the old Roman past and was the premise of Nonantola's High Middle Ages importance, as it was chosen for the meeting in 883 between Pope Marinus I and the emperor Charles the Fat. Pope Hadrian III was buried here.