Valdragone

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Valdragone
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Valdragone
Location within San Marino
Coordinates: 43°56′23.76″N12°27′27.12″E / 43.9399333°N 12.4575333°E / 43.9399333; 12.4575333
CountryFlag of San Marino.svg  San Marino
Castello Borgo Maggiore.JPG Borgo Maggiore
Constituent curazie
List
  • Valdragone di Sopra, Valdragone di Sotto
Elevation
466 m (1,529 ft)
Demonym valdragonesi
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
47893
Area code +378 (0549)

Valdragone is a settlement in San Marino comprising two curazie , Valdragone di Sopra and Valdragone di Sotto, in the castello of Borgo Maggiore. [1] [2]

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Geography

The village is situated east of Borgo Maggiore and also close to Cailungo and Domagnano.

History

The name of Valdragone appears for the first time in historical documents of 1253. The Monastero di Santa Chiara was built from 1969 to 1971.

According to legend, the name "Valdragone" comes from stories of a dragon that appeared there. [3] From Italian val, apocopic form of valle ("valley") + dragone ("dragon").

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References

  1. Rattini, Maurizio; Venturini, Gian Carlo; Volpinari, Antonio L. (21 March 1997). "Regolamento per la disciplina della campagna elttorale". Elezioni (in Italian). Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  2. "Borgo Maggiore". San Marino Web (in Italian). Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  3. Bent, James Theodore (1879). A Freak of Freedom; or, The Republic of San Marino. London: Longman, Green, and Co. p.  104.