Ghedi

Ghedi is an Italian municipality of 18,725 inhabitants in the province of Brescia in Lombardy. The city is home to the 6th Wing of the Air Force, with the Ghedi airport, wherein the Brescia Ghedi meteorological station is positioned. The starting place of the toponym Ghedi, notwithstanding the many hypotheses advanced remains an unsolved hassle. On the opposite hand, it's far positive that the archaic name inside the styles of Gide and Gade appears to be written for the first time in a code of the year 843, preserved on the Queriniana Library in Brescia.

It is a deed of sale among humans whose name suggests the presence, inside the village of that point, of a populace of Lombard foundation. The discovery of a Roman necropolis and of many reveals relationship lower back to the 1 to 2 century AD indicates that Roman population had overlapped the primitive Celtic populations within the area. The most historic nucleus of Ghedi evolved around a fortified enclosure whose place nevertheless nowadays called Castello from it is got here 4 small villages Bassina, Gazzolo, Borgonuovo and Malborgo.