Pozzolengo | |
Official Name: | Comune di Pozzolengo |
Native Name: | Posolengh |
Coordinates: | 45.4°N 48°W |
Province: | (BS) |
Area Total Km2: | 21.40 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 3455 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Demonym: | Pozzolenghesi |
Elevation M: | 135 |
Saint: | San Lorenzo |
Day: | 10 August |
Postal Code: | 25010 |
Area Code: | 030 |
Istat: | 017151 |
Frazioni: | Cavriana (MN), Desenzano del Garda, Lonato del Garda, Monzambano (MN), Peschiera del Garda (VR), Ponti sul Mincio (MN) |
Pozzolengo (Brescian: Posolengh) is an Italian municipality (comune) of 3,557 inhabitants in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.
Pozzolengo is located in northern Italy on the hills in the south of Lake Garda. Though in the province of Brescia (Lombardy), it borders two provinces (Mantua and Verona) and another region (Veneto).
Since it finds itself in a wet land and there used to be many wells, legend has it that the name Pozzolengo derives from the word well (pozzo in Italian).
The town has the following hamlets: Ballino, Belvedere, Bosco, Ceresa, Pirenei, Ponte del Cantone, Rondotto.
The town was inhabited starting from Prehistory and saw different peoples.
Around 1000 the castle was built upon mount Fluno and in 1510 the church was built .
In the 19th century the territory of Pozzolengo was the scene of the battles for the Unification of Italy.