Mirandola

Mirandola
Comune
Comune di Mirandola
Coat airms
Mirandola Location o Mirandola in Italy
Coordinates: 44°53′12″N 11°4′0″E
Kintra	Italy
Region	Emilia-Romagna
Province	Modena
Frazioni	Cividale, Gavello, Mortizzuolo, Quarantoli, San Giacomo Roncole, San Martin Carano, San Martino Spino, Tramuschio
Govrenment
• Mayor	Maino Benatti
Area
• Total	137.1 km2 (52.9 sq mi)
Elevation	18 m (59 ft)
Population  (2008)
• Total	22,068
• Density	160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Mirandolesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	41037
Diallin code	0535
Patron saunt	Saunt Possidonio
Saunt day	16 Mey
Website	Offeecial wabsteid

Mirandola (local dialect: La Miràndla) is a ceety an comune o Emilia-Romagna, Italy, in the Province o Modena, 31 km northeast o the provincial caipital bi railwey.

History

Mirandola oreeginatit as a Renaissance ceety-fortress. For fower centuries it wis the seat o a independent principality (first a coonty, then a duchy), a possession o the Pico faimily, whose maist ootstaundin member wis the polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494). It wis besiegit twa times: in 1510 an 1551.

It wis acquired bi the Duchy o Modena in 1710. The ceety stairtit tae decay efter the castle wis destroyed in 1714.

On 29 Mey 2012 a pouerful yirdquauk hit the Mirandola area. It killed at least 17 fowk an collapsed kirks an factories. An aw 200 wur injured. The 5.8 magnitude quauk left 14,000 fowk hameless.

Main sichts

• The Palazzo del Comune is a 15t-century edifice o Gothic style. The castle o the Pico faimily haes been recently restored an it is nou open tae the public.
• Palazzo della Ragione, in late Gothic style.
• Palazzo Bergomi (15t century)
• Palazzo Comunale (1468, lairgely restored in the 19t century), wi the portraits o the Pico an ither airtwirks, includin an Adoration o the Magi ance attributit tae Palma il Giovane.
• The cathedral, datin frae the end o the 15t century, haes been restored. S. Francesco is a fine Gothic kirk. It hooses the tombs o the Pico faimily, includin that o Prendiparte Pico (14t century). Collapsed durin the seicont of the 2012 Emilia yirdquauks.
• The Baroque Kirk o the Gesù (1690).
• The 15t century Collegiata.

Twin ceeties

• Ostfildern, Germany
• Villejuif, Fraunce

Sources

 This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid (in Italian)