Caldogno

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Caldogno
Comune di Caldogno
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Caldogno
Caldogno (Veneto)
Coordinates: 45°36′00″N11°29′40″E / 45.60000°N 11.49444°E / 45.60000; 11.49444
Country Italy
Region Veneto
Province Vicenza (VI)
Frazioni Cresole, Rettorgole
Government
  MayorMarcello Vezzaro
Area
[1]
  Total15 km2 (6 sq mi)
Elevation
52 m (171 ft)
Population
 (31 December 2019). [2]
  Total11,337
  Density760/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Demonym Calidonensi
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
36030
Dialing code 0444
ISTAT code 024018
Patron saintSt. John the Baptist
Saint day8 September
Website Official website

Caldogno is a town and comune near Vicenza in Italy. It has a population of 11,337 [3] inhabitants.

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The Villa Caldogno Nordera in its territory is attributed to architect Andrea Palladio.

It is the birthplace of the football player Roberto Baggio.

Physical geography

Caldogno rises on a completely flat territory where the Timonchio river flows.

Caldogno borders:

Origins of the name

Caldogno

In Roman times, Caldogno was the village located six miles away from the city and placed at the lower decumanus of the Vicentine Agro Centuriato of Thiene. [4] For this reason, unlike other municipalities that have this particular location (such as Sesto San Giovanni [4] in the province of Milan, but also Quarto d'Altino in Venice or Noventa Vicentina in Vicenza), it is strange that the name of the municipality is completely different or not derived from Sesto; many historians have tried to explain the etymology of the name. [5]

First of all, the author Mantese [6] considers it derived from "Carturnium": a purely philological analysis, however, would like that while the alternation of dental r > l could be accepted, the resulting alteration of vowels and consonants is rare to encounter in a single word. [7]

The researcher Benetti [8] connects it to "Calidarium", assuming that in the territory there were some hot springs or a hot bath establishment. However, there are two criticisms that can be made against this hypothesis, given the lack of evidence about the existence of such a place. The first one is that baths were usually designed to be in a city, not in a small agricultural village. Secondly, Caldogno was probably the seat of springs that fed the Roman aqueduct and therefore it must have been a place provided with fresh water springs rather than hot ones.

The researcher Dani [9] states instead that the name comes from the Latin noun "calleu", mangling of "valleus" (vallis), adjective form of calloneus that would mean "valley area". In addition to the fact that Caldogno does not rise in a valley, it should also be considered the high number of modifications that the name would have undergone to get to the current.

Pendin, on the other hand, argues that the change of name from Sesto is to be found in some events that occurred after the Roman era. In the history of Caldogno there are two other possible hypotheses, both to be traced back to the Longobard period:

Cresole

Olivieri, a great scholar of the toponymy of the region, assures a Latin origin linked to the name of the ancient owner "Cresius", who first built, in the area overlooking the banks of the Bacchiglione, the huts that constitute the first residential nucleus. [12]

Pendin explains how the name could derive from "cretulae", a species of marsh reeds present in the area originally marshy. [11]

Rettorgole

Both Formenton and Olivieri agree that the name of the hamlet derives from "rivus turgulus", “rivo o fiumicello torbido” for the appearance the water had when flowed into the various streams. Already in an act of 1499 the area of Rettorgole is called "villa de Roturgule". [12]

Monuments and places of interest

Religious architecture

Church of San Bartolomeo in Rettorgole Rettorgole Chiesa facciata.jpg
Church of San Bartolomeo in Rettorgole
Church of San Michele Caldogno San Michele facciata (piu ampia).jpg
Church of San Michele
Villa Caldogno Villa Caldogno 20081204-32.jpg
Villa Caldogno

Civil architecture

The former town hall - piazza Bruno Viola Caldogno ex municipio.jpg
The former town hall – piazza Bruno Viola
Villa Fogazzaro-Arnaldi Caldogno Villa Fogazzaro-Arnaldi.jpg
Villa Fogazzaro-Arnaldi
Villa Ghellini-Piovene Caldogno Villa Ghellini-Piovene.jpg
Villa Ghellini-Piovene

Culture

Education

Schools

In Caldogno there are 4 state schools: a kindergarten (Giovanni Pascoli), two primary schools (San Giovanni Bosco in Caldogno and Carlo Collodi in Rettorgole) and a Secondary school of first degree (Dante Alighieri [51] ).

Libraries

In the capital there is the Civic Library, which is part of the network of libraries in Vicenza "Bibioinrete", [52] along with most of the libraries belonging to the Library Network of Vicenza.

University

In Caldogno there is one of the 22 venues of the University of adults/elders of the territory of Vicenza. [53]

Sport

The main football team is the Calidonense that plays in “Promozione" and is affiliated to the L.R. Vicenza [54] football team, while the other team of the municipality of Caldogno is “Cresole 80” with which there is a great sporting rivalry.

It is known as the birthplace of the ex-football player Roberto Baggio.

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  1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ISTAT - Bilancio demografico al 31 dicembre 2019 2019 figures.
  3. "Inhabitants at 31 December 2019". 27 December 2020.
  4. 1 2 Pendin, Galdino (1997). Storia di Caldogno. Vicenza: La Serenissima. p. 55.
  5. Prof. Pendin in his History of Caldogno dedicates a chapter to the discussion of the various theories concerning the etymology of the name. Among the authors mentioned there are the Mantese, the Benetti, the Dani and some notes about the Barbarano whose hypothesis is cited as a reworking in imaginative form of many bombastic deductions. Each hypothesis is however analyzed by grasping both the correct deductions and inaccuracies.
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  11. 1 2 Pendin, p.61
  12. 1 2 Pendin, p.58
  13. This work of excavation took place mainly thanks to the chaplain Don Tarcisio Pirocca who, although not specified by Pendin, was vicar cooperator of Caldogno from 1970 to 1972. cf. Pendin, p. 154
  14. Pendin, p.156
  15. 1 2 Pendin, p.157
  16. Pendin, p.158
  17. Pendin, p.145
  18. Pendin, p.150
  19. 1 2 Pendin, p.129
  20. Pendin, p.127
  21. As can be read from a document of 1600: «turpato il Cemeterio, demolita la casa, cavati li morari, et spoliata di tutti li suoi beni mobili et stabili et venduto ancor il quartese»; he bishop Michele Priuli, in a visit of 1584 wrote that he found it : «derelita et spoliata di tutti li suoi beni» cfr. Pendin, Storia di Caldogno, p. 136
  22. Pendin, p.135
  23. As the road signs tell
  24. Pendin, p.235
  25. Although for a long time it was thought to be dedicated to the Trinity, all the documents that speak of it describe it as dedicated to the Motherhood of Mary. cf. Pendin, p. 228 and 231
  26. Pendin, pp. 229–30
  27. Pendin, p.230
  28. Pendin, p.265
  29. The official name that the Municipality of Caldogno gives to this building is Ex Town Hall in Piazza Bruno Viola. It is not known that it ever had any name in particular: after the destination to the municipal seat in 1931 it assumed the name of Town Hall but then lose this name in 1987 when the town hall returned to its current location.
  30. Pendin, p.219
  31. Mantese, p.214 and Pendin, p. 223
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  33. The question of who the castle was, remains much debated. The presence of falsified privileges, including that granted by Frederick Barbarossa in 1183 and that of Louis the Bavarian in 1330, makes it questionable that it was always the Counts Caldogno. Surely these counts were invested by the bishops of Vicenza of the feud in the centuries between the thirteenth and eighteenth.
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  36. 1 2 Pendin, p.227
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  51. "Istituto comprensivo Dante Alighieri".
  52. "Biblioinrete".
  53. "Foundation adults-elders University". Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
  54. "VICENZA ACADEMY". Archived from the original on 30 September 2013.

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