Urago d'Oglio
Welcome to Urago d'Oglio!
Hello friends, today I will take you to the discovery of Urago d'Oglio (or Öràc d'Òi in Brescia dialect), an Italian municipality with a population of 3745 inhabitants, located in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy.
Physical geography
Territory
Urago d'Oglio is located in the western Brescia plain, on the border with the province of Brescia, on an area of 10.64 km². The territory has altitudes ranging from 107 to 144 meters above sea level.
Climate
The municipality belongs to the E climatic zone.
History
Urago d'Oglio boasts a millenary history, which began with the settlement of the Liguri people eighteen hundred years before Christ. But it was the Gaulish Cenomani, founders of the village, who determined its destiny in the following centuries. During the Roman period, Urago became an important crossroads of commercial exchanges, thanks to its strategic location.
After the invasion of the barbarians, the area came under the control of the bishop of Cremona. In 1366 it became part of the fiefdom of Calciana di Donna Regina della Scala, divided among the Martinengo, Secco, Barbi, and Pallavicini, while the Urago castle was ruled by the Gisalberti, counts of Martinengo. In 1427, the town and the fortress of Urago were occupied by the Visconti army led by Carlo II Malatesta and occupied by his captains, Cristoforo Lavello and Alberico II da Barbiano.
In 1774 it was detached from the Calcio parish to pass to the diocese of Brescia. With the French occupation of the western part of the Calciana fiefdom in 1796, Urago d'Oglio, on March 31 of the following year, became part of the Brescia Republic, putting an end to an independence that had lasted for 431 years. Finally, just south of Urago, it is still possible to find an artificial hill built with the bodies of the three thousand French soldiers who fell in the battle of Chiari.
Symbols
The flag of the municipality of Urago d'Oglio is a divided cloth of blue and white.
Monuments and places of interest
Civil architecture
= Castle =
The main monument is the Castle, built by the Martinengo family in the fifteenth century. The fortification preserves an entrance tower, a small loggia, and two courtyards. Until the nineteenth century, it was still possible to observe a moat that, if necessary, could be flooded.
Society
Demographic evolution
The evolution of Urago d'Oglio's demographic has seen a peak in the 1950s, then stabilizing.
Ethnic groups and foreign minorities
As of December 31, 2015, 19.45% of Urago d'Oglio's population was made up of foreign citizens, amounting to 754.
I hope this brief presentation has piqued your interest in this fascinating Brescia municipality. If you have the opportunity to visit it, you will surely appreciate its history and monuments.
