Monzambano

Monzambano is an Italian metropolis of 4,835 inhabitants inside the province of Mantua in Lombardy. Its territory is predominantly hilly, in truth it's far a city located between the morainic hills south of Lake Garda, within the Alto Mantovano area. The nearby parish became a part of the Diocese of Verona until 1977, attesting to the Venetian roots of the metropolis. Monzambano has been inhabited since the Bronze Age as evidenced by way of the findings of a pile residing village in the Fondo Tacoli region of Castellaro Lagusello inside the Castellaro Lagusello district.

In 2011 this vicinity becomes covered many of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the supranational site online called Ancient settlements in the Alps. Monzambano had been at the least since 1199, with Ponti sul Mincio, Peschiera Del Garda and Valeggio sul Mincio, of the Verona shielding device to the east, which includes castrums placed in tactical positions to preserve the Scaligeri borders. When Verona in 1495 got here beneath Venetian have an impact on, Monzambano additionally accompanied its destiny. Monzambano remained below the Serenissima until 1797, the year of Napoleon Bonaparte's descent in Italy, while the citadel became a cornerstone of the Venetian resistance to the French.