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Castiglione delle Stiviere

Castiglione delle Stiviere
Comune
Città di Castiglione delle Stiviere
Castiglione panorama.JPG
Coat of arms of Castiglione delle Stiviere
Coat of arms
Castiglione delle Stiviere is located in Italy
Castiglione delle Stiviere
Castiglione delle Stiviere
Location of Castiglione delle Stiviere in Italy
Coordinates: 45°23′30″N 10°29′20″E / 45.39167°N 10.48889°E / 45.39167; 10.48889Coordinates: 45°23′30″N 10°29′20″E / 45.39167°N 10.48889°E / 45.39167; 10.48889
Country Italy
Region Lombardy
Province / Metropolitan city Mantua (MN)
Frazioni Astore, Gozzolina, Grole, San Vigilio
Government
 • Mayor Alessandro Novellini (PD)
Area
 • Total 42 km2 (16 sq mi)
Elevation 111 m (364 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 22,739
 • Density 540/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Castiglionesi
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code 46043
Dialing code 0376
Patron saint St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Saint day June 21
Website Official website

Castiglione delle Stiviere is a town and comune in the province of Mantua, in Lombardy, Italy, 30 kilometres (19 miles) northwest of Mantua by road.

During the War of the Spanish Succession, the French under the duc de Vendôme occupied it.

In 1706, in the first Battle of Castiglione a French army under Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey defeated here a Hessian army led by Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel.

During the siege of Mantua in 1796, the Austrians under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser were defeated here in the second Battle of Castiglione by the revolutionary French army under General Augereau, later Marshal of France, who in 1808 was created Duke of Castiglione by Emperor Napoleon I, a hereditary victory title (so there never was an actual territorial duchy attached to it) extinguished in 1915.

It is the birthplace of St. Aloysius Gonzaga (Italian: Luigi Gonzaga) who was a Jesuit. Aloysius was buried in the Church of the Annunciation in Rome. His head was later translated to the basilica bearing his name in Castiglione delle Stiviere.

Castiglione received the honorary title of city by presidential decree on 18 October 2001.

It has an old castle, much altered and restored, especially by the Gonzaga family of Mantua in the 16th century.


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