Ostiglia

Ostiglia is an Italian metropolis of 6,663 inhabitants within the province of Mantua, to which it belongs for the reason that 14th century. Remembered in Roman times with the name of Hostilia, it absolutely represented a crucial point for direct commercial exchanges from Emilia to Verona and the Germanic territories it changed into in fact placed at the Via Claudia Augusta Padana, noted via the Roman itineraries. In the 1^st century BC Cornelius Nepos became born there. In the 5^th century AD it was the site of a type of couriers known as Dromonarii whose undertaking was to transport foodstuffs to Verona, then an crucial city of the Ostrogoth nation, which reached as a ways as Ostiglia following the dissolution of the Roman Empire.

After the Byzantine recon quest of Italy the Lombards arrived, among the give up of the 6th and the start of the 7th century and after 774 the Franks with Charlemagne. During the Low Middle Ages Ostiglia entered the orbit of Verona, which made it one of its strongholds with the development of a castle in 1151. In the period wherein it held power in Verona, the Ezzelini own family obtained residences there, which have been cautiously ascertained, recorded and documented after their very last defeat in 1260.