Imola

Imola is a Italian city of the Province of Bologna in Emilie-Romagna.

It is more particularly known for the circuit Dino and Enzo Ferrari on which ran itself until 2006, the automobile Grand Prix of San Marino cash for the championship of the world Formule 1. The race, which bears the name of the principality close to San Marino, itself too small to accommodate a automobile Grand Prix, is generally associated in the name of “Imola”.

The town of Imola, famous for its Ceramic S, goes up at the time Roman and is known to have been an agricultural and commercial center; she was then known like the Forum Cornelii . According to the tradition, Saint Cassien d' Imola suffered the Martyr E here even during the reign from Julien the Apostate at the 4th century.

Thereafter, the city passed between the hands of Condottiere S, like the Visconti or the Sforza, which built there several fortresses, which remain nowadays.

Administration

Hamlets

Casola Canina, Chiusura, Fabbrica, Giardino, Linaro, Montecatone, Piratello, Ponticelli, San Prospero, Sasso Morelli, Selva, Sesto Imolese, Spazzate Sassatelli, Zello

Communes bordering

Silver plated, Bagnara di Romagna (RA), Borgo Tossignano, Casalfiumanese, Castel Bolognese (RA), Castel Guelfo di Bologna, Conselice (RA), Dozza, Massa Lombarda (RA), Medicina, Mordano, Riolo Terme (RA), Solarolo (RA)

See too

List of the Italian cities of more than 25.000 inhabitants

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