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Comune di Gubbio
Coat of arms of Comune di Gubbio
Municipal coat of arms

Location of Gubbio in Italy
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Region Umbria
Province Perugia (PG)
Mayor Orfeo Goracci (from June 12, 2006)
Elevation 522 m (1,713 ft)
Area 525 km² (203 sq mi)
Population (as of December 31, 2004)
 - Total 32,563
 - Density 62/km² (161/sq mi)
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 43°21′N, 12°34′E
Gentilic Eugubini
Dialing code 075
Postal code 06024, 06020
Frazioni see list
Patron St. Ubaldus
 - Day May 16
Website: www.comune.gubbio.pg.it

Gubbio is a town and comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria) It is located on the first slope of Mt. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Umbria is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Perugia. In Italy, a Province (in Italian provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between Municipality ( Comune The Province of Perugia (Provincia di Perugia is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area Events 1381 - Peasants' Revolt: in England, rebels arrive at Blackheath. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Events 406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gallia. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Central European Time ( CET) is one of the names of the Time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. UTC+1 is used in the following locations Central European Time West Africa Time Western European Summer Time A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a People or the inhabitants of a place Here are a list of area codes in Italy. All numbers here begin with the country code (0039 A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a Comune; for other Administrative Gubbio is a town and Comune in the far northeastern part of the Italian Province of Perugia ( Umbria) It is located on the first slope of Mt Saint Ubald of Gubbio (Ubald Ubaldus Ubalde (ca 1084—1160 is venerated as a Saint by the Catholic Church. Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic Administrative division of both provinces and regions and may be properly approximated in Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest The Province of Perugia (Provincia di Perugia is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds of both the area Umbria is one of the 20 Regions of Italy. The capital is Perugia. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennines.

Panorama of Gubbio.
Panorama of Gubbio.

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History

The city's origins are very ancient: as Ikuvium, it was an important town of the ancient Umbrian people in pre-Roman times, and is famous for the discovery there of the Eugubine (or Iguvine) Tables, a set of bronze tablets that together constitute the largest surviving text in ancient Umbrian. Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria. The Iguvine Tables were a series of seven Bronze tablets discovered at Iguvium, contemporary Gubbio, in Italy in the year 1444. After the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC — it kept its name with only a slight change (Iguvium) — the city remained important, as attested by its Roman theater, the second-largest surviving in the world. The 2nd century BC started the first day of 200 BC and ended the last day of 101 BC.

Gubbio became very powerful in the beginning of the Middle Ages. The town sent 1000 knights to fight in the First Crusade under the lead of Count Girolamo Gabrielli, and according to an undocumented tradition, they were the first to penetrate into the Holy Sepulchre when the city was seized (1099). The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of conquering the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and freeing The Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Sanctum Sepulchrum also called the Church of the Resurrection, ( Greek: Ναός της Αναστάσεως Naos tis Anastaseos

The following centuries were quite turbulent and Gubbio was engaged in wars against the surrounding towns of Umbria. One of these wars saw the miraculous intervention of its bishop, Saint Ubaldo Baldassini, who secured Gubbio an overwhelming victory (1151) and a period of prosperity. Saint Ubald of Gubbio (Ubald Ubaldus Ubalde (ca 1084—1160 is venerated as a Saint by the Catholic Church.

In 1350 Giovanni Gabrielli, count of Borgovalle, a member of the noblest family of Gubbio, seized the power and became lord of Gubbio. However his rule was short and he was forced to hand over the town to Cardinal Albornoz, representing the Church (1354). Gil Álvarez Carrillo de Albornoz ( Italian: Egidio Albornoz; 1310 - August 23 1367) was a Spanish cardinal and

A few years later, Gabriello Gabrielli, bishop of Gubbio, proclaimed himself again lord of Gubbio (Signor d’Agobbio). Betrayed by a group of noblemen which included many a relative of his, the bishop was forced to leave the town and seek refuge at his home castle at Cantiano.

With the decay of the political prestige of the Gabrielli family, Gubbio was thereafter incorporated into the Montefeltro State, and eventually became part of the Papal States when this family extinguished (1631). The Gabrielli (sometimes known as "Gabrielli di Gubbio " are an Italian feudal family from Gubbio, a town in Umbria. Montefeltro is a historical-geographic region in the Marche, which was historically part of Romagna.

In 1860 Gubbio was incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy along with the rest of the Papal States. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest

Main sights

The historical center of Gubbio is of decidedly medieval aspect: the town is austere in appearance because of the dark grey stone, narrow streets, and Gothic architecture.

A fair number of the houses in Gubbio date to the 14th and 15th centuries, and were originally the dwellings of wealthy merchants; they often have a second door fronting on the street, usually just a few inches from the main entrance. This secondary entrance is narrower, and a foot or so above the actual street level. This type of door is called a porta dei morti (door of the dead) because it is commonly stated that it was used only for removing the bodies of any who might have died inside the house. This is almost certainly false, but there is no firm agreement on the true purpose of the secondary doors. One of the most likely theories is that the door was used by the owners to protect themselves when opening to unknown persons, leaving them in a dominating position.

The main monuments of the city include:

Culture

Gubbio is best known for its palio, the Corsa dei Ceri, a spectacular run held every year on May 15, in which three teams, devoted to S. See Fiat Palio for the car Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest very often of a historical character Saint Ubaldo Day is Jessup Pennsylvania 's observance of Gubbio Italy 's La Festa dei Ceri Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the  Ubaldo (the patron saint of Gubbio), S.  Giorgio, and S.  Antonio, run through throngs of cheering supporters (clad in the distinctive colours of yellow, blue and black, with white trousers and red belts and neckbands), up much of the mountain from the main square in front of the Palazzo dei Consoli to the basilica of S.  Ubaldo, each team carrying a statue of their saint mounted on a wooden octagonal prism, similar to an hour-glass shape 4 meters tall and weighing about 280 kilograms.

The race has strong devotional, civic, and historical overtones and is one of the best-known folklore manifestations in Italy; the Ceri were chosen as the heraldic emblem on the coat of arms of Umbria as a modern administrative region.

A celebration like the Corsa dei Ceri is held also in Jessup, Pennsylvania. Jessup is a borough in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. In this small town the people carry out the same festivities as the residents of Gubbio do by "racing" the three statues through the streets. This remains an important and sacred event in both towns.

Gubbio was also one of the centres of production of the Italian pottery (maiolica), during the Renaissance. Pottery is the Ceramic ware made by potters It also refers to a group of materials that includes Earthenware, Stoneware Maiolica designates Italian Tin-glazed pottery dating from the Renaissance. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere The most important Italian potter of that period, Mastro Giorgio, was active in Gubbio during the first half of XVI century. Giorgio Andreoli, named also Mastro Giorgio Andreoli or Mastro Giorgio, was born between 1465 and 1470 in Intra, on the Lake Maggiore, and died

The city is the setting for the popular story of St. Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio, recorded in the medieval Fioretti di San Francesco. For the opera by Olivier Messiaen see Saint-François d'Assise. The Little Flowers of St Francis ( Italian Fioretti di San Francesco) is a Florilegium, divided into 53 short chapters on the life

Frazioni (municipal subdivisions)

The frazioni (territorial subdivisions) of the comune of Gubbio are: Branca, Torre Calzolari, Spada, Padule, San Marco, Colpalombo, Carbonesca, Biscina, Belvedere, Scritto, Ponte D'assi, Cipolleto, Ferratelle, Semonte, Casamorcia, Raggio, Monteleto, Mocaiana, Monteluiano, San Martino in Colle, Loreto, Camporeggiano, Burano. A frazione, in Italy, is the name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a Comune; for other Administrative In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic Administrative division of both provinces and regions and may be properly approximated in

The Gubbio Layer

Gubbio is also famous among geologists and paleobiologists as the discovery place of the so-called Gubbio layer, an exposed sedimentary layer exposed by a roadcut outside of town. A geologist is a contributor to the Science of Geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system This thin, dark band of sediment marks the boundary between the Cretaceous and Tertiary geological periods roughly 65 million years before present, and was formed by infalling debris from the gigantic meteor impact responsible for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and their contemporaries. Sediment is any particulate matter that can be transported by fluid flow and which eventually is deposited as a layer of solid particles on the bed or bottom of a body of The Cretaceous (kriːˈteɪʃəs, usually abbreviated 'K' for its German translation "Kreide" is a geologic period and system, reaching from the end of The chuprichondira geological time interval covers roughly the time span between the demise of the non- avian Dinosaurs and beginning of the most recent Ice Age, approximately It is extraordinarily rich in iridium, a heavy metal rare on Earth's surface but plentiful in extraterrestrial material such as comets and asteroids. Iridium (ɪˈrɪdiəm is a Chemical element that has the symbol Ir and Atomic number 77 It also contains small globules of glassy material called tektites, formed in the initial impact. Tektites (from Greek tektos, molten are natural Glass objects up to a few centimeters in size which most scientists argue were formed by the impact of Discovered at Gubbio, it is also visible at many places all over the world. The characteristics of this boundary layer support the theory that a devastating meteorite impact, with accompanying ecological and climatic disturbance, was directly responsible for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. An extinction event (also known as mass extinction; extinction-level event, ELE is a sharp decrease in the number of Species in a relatively short period

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