Spigno Saturnia

Comune in Lazio, Italy

Coat of arms

Location of Spigno Saturnia

41°18′N 13°44′E / 41.300°N 13.733°E / 41.300; 13.733CountryItalyRegionLazioProvinceLatina (LT)FrazioniCampodivivo, Santo Stefano, Piscinola, CapodacquaGovernment

• MayorSalvatore Vento (Civic list)Area

^[1]

• Total38 km² (15 sq mi)Elevation

51 m (167 ft)Population

(31 March 2015^[2])^[3]

• Total2,963 • Density78/km² (200/sq mi)DemonymSpignesiTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

04020

Dialing code0771WebsiteOfficial website

Spigno Saturnia is a town and comune in the province of Latina, in the Lazio region of central Italy.

Medieval Spinium, which had its own counts in the Norman period, corresponds to the frazione of Spigno Vecchio.^[4]

Origin of name

The toponym "Spigno" derives from the spread over the territory of two thorny plants, the hawthorn and the wild plum, and from the fact that the latter was used with its thorns by the Spigno inhabitants to make fences.

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ Data from ISTAT
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ Bloch, Herbert (1986). Monte Cassino in the Middle Ages. Volume I (Parts I–III). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 398–99.