Mirandola
Comune
Comune di Mirandola
Coat airms
Mirandola Location o Mirandola in Italy
Coordinates: 44°53′12″N 11°4′0″E / 44.88667°N 11.06667°E / 44.88667; 11.06667
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)[1]
• 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.^[2]

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

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Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid (in Italian)