Borghetto San Nicolò

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Borghetto San Nicolò
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Borghetto San Nicolò
Location of Borghetto San Nicolò in Italy
Coordinates: 43°48′17.72″N7°39′37.28″E / 43.8049222°N 7.6603556°E / 43.8049222; 7.6603556 Coordinates: 43°48′17.72″N7°39′37.28″E / 43.8049222°N 7.6603556°E / 43.8049222; 7.6603556
CountryFlag of Italy.svg  Italy
Region Flag of Liguria.svg  Liguria
Province Imparia (IM)
Comune Bordighera
Elevation [1] 90 m (300 ft)
Population (2001)Istat - 14º Censimento generale della popolazione e delle abitazioni
 • Total 312
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code18012
Dialing code (+39) 0184
Patron saint Saint Nicholas
Saint day 6 December

Borghetto San Nicolò is a frazione (and parish) of the municipality of Bordighera, in Liguria, northern Italy.

"Frazione" is the Italian name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. It is cognate to the English word fraction, but in practice is roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other countries.

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount.

Bordighera Comune in Liguria, Italy

Bordighera is a town and comune in the Province of Imperia, Liguria (Italy).

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Geography

Borghetto San Nicolò is located on the right banks of the torrente Borghetto. Its centre in at 90 metres AMSL. [2]

History

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Parish church
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Memorial tablet for the 500th anniversary of Bordighera foundation

Borghetto San Nicolò is a quite ancient village and it probably was founded by Ligurian tribes devoted to hunting and cattle breeding. After the centuries of instability and precariousness followed the fall of the Roman Empire Borghetto was assigned by the Carolingian Empire to the Comitato di Ventimiglia ("County of Ventimiglia"), which held the village up to the 13th century. On 2 September 1470 in the church of Borghetto was held the assembly of the head of households which established the new city of Bordighera; [3] many of them were living in Borghetto.

Ligures ethnic group

The Ligures were an Indo-European people who appear to have originated in, and gave their name to, Liguria, a region of north-western Italy. Elements of the Ligures appear to have migrated to other areas of western Europe, including the Iberian peninsula.

Hunting Searching, pursuing, catching and killing wild animals

Hunting is the practice of killing or trapping animals, or pursuing or tracking them with the intent of doing so. Hunting wildlife or feral animals is most commonly done by humans for food, recreation, to remove predators that are dangerous to humans or domestic animals, or for trade. Lawful hunting is distinguished from poaching, which is the illegal killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species. The species that are hunted are referred to as game or prey and are usually mammals and birds.

Fall of the Western Roman Empire Political change in late antiquity that came with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire

The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians mention factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the Emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from invading barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure.

On 21 April 1686, the representants of eight villages, Camporosso, Vallebona, Vallecrosia, San Biagio della Cima, Sasso, Soldano, Borghetto San Nicolò and Bordighera, had a meeting in order to build what they called Magnifica Comunità degli Otto Luoghi, which can be translated as: "The magnificent community of the eight villages". Their goal was to gain independence from the nearby rival city of Ventimiglia. [3]

Camporosso Comune in Liguria, Italy

Camporosso is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 160 kilometres (99 mi) southwest of Genoa and about 45 kilometres (28 mi) west of Imperia.

Vallebona Comune in Liguria, Italy

Vallebona is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Genoa and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Imperia. Vallebona borders the following municipalities: Bordighera, Ospedaletti, Perinaldo, San Biagio della Cima, Seborga, Soldano, and Vallecrosia.

Vallecrosia Comune in Liguria, Italy

Vallecrosia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Imperia in the Italian region Liguria, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) southwest of Genoa and about 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Imperia. It is next to the busy city of Ventimiglia.

Borghetto San Nicolò was a separate comune (municipality) until 1928 when, with Sasso (which also was an autonomous municipality) was joined with Bordighera. [4]

<i>Comune</i> third-level administrative divisions of the Italian Republic

The comune is a basic administrative division in Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

Sasso di Bordighera Frazione in Liguria, Italy

Sasso di Bordighera is a frazione of the municipality of Bordighera, in Liguria, northern Italy.

Etymology

Borghetto means small village and is an early medieval term; San Nicolò is related to the saint of the village (Saint Nicholas) and was added to the name of the comune in 1861 following the Kingdom of Italy foundation, in order to identify it among other Italian comunes also named Borghetto.

Saint Nicholas 4th-century Christian saint

Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor during the time of the Roman Empire. He is revered by many Christians as a saint. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus through Sinterklaas.

Kingdom of Italy kingdom on the Appenine Peninsula between 1861 and 1946

The Kingdom of Italy was a state which existed from 1861—when King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia was proclaimed King of Italy—until 1946—when a constitutional referendum led civil discontent to abandon the monarchy and form the modern Italian Republic. The state was founded as a result of the unification of Italy under the influence of the Kingdom of Sardinia, which can be considered its legal predecessor state.

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References

  1. ↑ Limiti Amministrativi (Comunali, Provinciali, Regionali) sc. 1:25000 - ed. 2011; Regione Liguria, on-line map on geoportale.regione.liguria.it.
  2. ↑ Carta 1:25.00, Istituto Geografico Militare (on-line:www.pcn.minambiente.it)
  3. 1 2 Gandolfo, Andrea (2005). La provincia di Imperia: storia, arti, tradizioni. 1. Blu edizioni.
  4. ↑ "Comune ISTAT "008008 Bordighera (Imperia)"". www.elesh.it. Retrieved 2016-06-25.

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