Cividate Camuno

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| region = Lombardy

| province = Brescia (BS)

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| mayor = Cesare Damiola

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| area_total_km2 = 3

| population_footnotes = [http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2011gen/index02.html ISTAT] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184737/http://demo.istat.it/bilmens2011gen/index02.html |date=March 3, 2016 }}

| population_total = 2774

| population_as_of = 31 December 2011

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| population_demonym = Cividatesi

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| elevation_m = 275

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| saint = Saint Stephen

| day = 26 December

| postal_code = 25040

| area_code = 0364

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Cividate Camuno (Camunian: {{lang|lmo|Hiidà}}) is an Italian comune of 2,774 inhabitants (2011), in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, in Lombardy.

Geography

The territory of Cividate Camuno is bordered by several municipalities: to the east Bienno, on the north Breno and Malegno, to the west Piancogno, and south Esine and Berzo Inferiore.

History

Originally a Roman town, the Civitas Camunnorum, Cividate Camuno was known as Civethate in the medieval period.

Between 1863 and 1887 Cividate assumed the name "Cividate Alpino", but because of bureaucratic confusion, in 1887 the village re-took the name "Cividate Camuno" .

Main sights

The main tourist sights of Cividate Camuno are:

Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta, standing on the site of the baptismal chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist, which was replaced after the 11th century by the Romanesque church.
Church of Santo Stefano. Commanding the countryside, it is accessed by a ladder with four flights with no other possibility of approach (the ladder is dated 1770). Archaeological excavations have reported pre-Christian elements.
Medieval tower of the 12th-13th century
Renaissance gates
Museo nazionale della Valcamonica
[http://www.parcoarcheologicocividate.valcamonicaromana.beniculturali.it/ The Roman park of the theatre and amphitheatre]

File:Anfiteatro romano - Cividate Camuno (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg|Roman amphitheatre of Cividate Camuno

File:Calco statua principe-eroe - Piazza Fiamme Verdi - Cividate Camuno (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg|Copy of Roman statue in Cividate Camuno

File:Torre - Cividate Camuno (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg|Tower of Cividate Camuno

File:Stele cividate - M Bergamo (Foto Luca Giarelli).jpg|Stele di Cividate Camuno, Archaeological Museum of Bergamo

Culture

The scütüm are in camunian dialect nicknames, sometimes personal, elsewhere showing the characteristic features of a community. The one which characterize the people of Cividate Camuno is Pàtate, Bö or Maia Hüche.

People

Blessed Giuseppe Tovini
Blessed Mosè Tovini

References

External links

[http://www.intercam.it/tomo/album/paese/cividate.htm Historical photos - Intercam] {{in lang|it}}
[http://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/luoghi/schede/1264/?a=20341 Historical photos - Lombardia Beni Culturali] {{in lang|it}}
{{in lang|en}} [https://archive.today/20121205002321/http://www.civitascamunnorum.com/ Archaeological park with Roman theatre and amphitheatre and national museum] {{in lang|it}}

Category:Cities and towns in Lombardy