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Colleferro — Comune — Comune di Colleferro 
Coat of armsLocation of Colleferro in Italy
ColleferroCoordinates: 41°44′N 13°01′E / 41.733°N 13.017°E Country Italy Region Lazio Province Rome Government - Mayor Mario Cacciotti Area - Total 27 km2 (10.4 sq mi) Elevation 218 m (715 ft) Population (December 31, 2008) - Total 22,071 - Density 817.4/km2 (2,117.2/sq mi) Demonym Colleferrini Time zone CET (UTC+1) - Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2) Postal code 00034 Dialing code 06 Patron saint St. Barbara Saint day December 4 Website Official website Colleferro is a small town of the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is a new residential zone of the metropolitan area of Rome where are located many different industries and a lot of sport structures.
On 9 October 2007 one person was killed and eight were injured in an explosion at a weapons factory belonging to Italian company Simmel Difesa, which manufactures ammunitions, explosives, missile warheads and rockets for the armed forces in Italy and abroad.
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The Twentieth Century
The development of the town began as early as 1912 with the conversion of a long disused factory (the Valsacco company factory) to one of Explosive. The first group of houses were not located where the town center now stands, but then at the call of the railway station "Segni-Paliano", then called Segni-Station Colleferro Paliano after the birth of the town of Colleferro: a first group of houses (including the Church of St. Joachim) was built in the then territory of Valmontone (aka Segni Scalo).
The engineer Leopoldo Parodi Delfino (former senator and son of the founder of the National Bank, then Bank of Italy) and Senator Giovanni Bombrini founded the 'Bombrini Parodi Delfino explosives factory and, at the same location, was created a new group of houses known as "BPD Village", into which many workers moved their families from different regions of Italy. The town was also the "Lime & Cement Segni" (subsequently acquired by Italcementi), which led to the valley floor and worked the material quarried from the nearby town of Segni to produce cement for construction.
Colleferro, whose territory originally belonged to the municipalities of Valmontone (near the airport and part of the capital city) and of Rome, continued its urban sprawl for all Twenties and [ [Year 1930 | thirty]], until it became an independent town in 1935. Later the town of Colleferro added to their territory limited portions of the neighboring municipalities of Segni and Paliano.
During WWII Colleferro was repeatedly bombarded with the aim to destroy the explosives factory. Citizens found shelter in a series of caves and tunnels built under the "Village BPD" and known by the name of "refugee."
References
- On April 9, 2003 was made to launch 15 'Ariane
5 carrying the booster, which vengno products in the establishment of AVIO (Colleferro) Colleferro name, was like a "Tribute" While the city was one of the founders of the community City of Ariane, who has worked for more than 90 years.
- From Appia and Plutarch we learn that in 82 BC at Colleferro a decisive battle took place which concluded in favor of Silla, the Civil War condatta against Gaius Marius the Younger. At the end of the siege Marius committed suicide.
- Paul VI celebrated Mass in the Plaza Italy, September 11, 1966.
- On June 18, 1939 was the Prince Umberto II of Italy to the awards for courage occurred in establishments Bombrini Parodi Delfino (BPD).
- Hold the Bombrini Parodi Delfino (BPD) occurred repeatedly explosions severely damage the dead and wounded, the worst was the explosion of February 1, 1938, the news was reported in Times
- After only about three hours with "burst February 1, 1938, the king in Italy Victor Emmanuel III and the head Government Benito Mussolini, along with senior executives of the state, hierarchical, civil and military, were in Colleferro to see what happened,
by control plants and visiting the wounded, decide what to do to the best of city and society of the wounded Bombrini Parodi Delfino (BPD).
- Enrico Toti in 1905 was engaged in Railway. On 27 March 1908, while carrying out the lubrication of a locomotive, which had stopped at the station to make the connection of Colleferro
locomotive and a dual water supply. When the locomotives moved, Toti slipped and his left leg was trapped and crushed by the gears.
- In the early 50's, plants Colleferro Bombrini Parodi Dolphin (BPD) was created in "the first soap", lauryl powder that was made in Italy.
Twinning
Colleferro is twinned with:
- Colmenar Viejo Spain
Geography anthropogenic
Fractions
- Colleferro Scalo, originally, the first settlement of Colleferro
- Fourth kilometer, located on the border with the municipality of Artena
Monuments and places of interest
Religious Buildings
- Santa Barbara
- Church of the Immaculate
- Church of San Bruno
- Church of St. Joachim
- Temple of Santa Barbara
- Church of St. Benedict
- Temple of Saint Anne
Architecture military
The air-raid shelters, residues of World War II, where some 1,500 civilians found shelter during the bombing, most of the "refuge" is still open on the feast of St. Barbara (December 4), patron of the country.
Economy
Agriculture
The territory has always been an agricultural vocation. From 2006 is in the "Rural District and the Valley of the agro-energy Latin.
As part of the redevelopment of the Valle del Sacco was initiated an experiment in "non-food crops (crops not for food). The crops will be sunflower for the biodiesel and poplars to power boilers biomass.
As for the 'livestock, the environmental crisis had forced the slaughter of livestock and destruction of health protection for milk in all farms in the area. The farm has since rebounded with numerous protections for consumers.
Industry
The development of Colleferro is linked from the beginning to its industrial, with the opening of explosives Bombrini Parodi Delfino (BDP), to which were added numerous chemical plants and textile. The industrial area of Colleferro spread over 1000 hectares of land, mostly owned by Se.co.svim.
Some of the companies in the territory and have been: SNIA for working with pozzolan's Italcementi in the chemical Caffaro Ketones, Caffaro Benzoin the Se.co . Svim; for the construction and repair of the railway car body Alstom and RFI. Among the companies high teconologia remember the Avio, operating in aerospace, but we mention the war in Simmel
Plants
- Municipal Stadium Maurizio Natali
- Municipal Stadium Andrea Caslino
- Sports Hall Alfredo Romboli
- Municipal Swimming Pool
- Field Archery
- Bowls Hall
Sports
The main sports clubs are Colleferro:
- Colleferro Rugbyby rugby union
- "Civis Colleferro 1997" by soccer 5
- Society Colleferro Sports Soccerby football
- "ASD" mythical "Colleferro" of "table tennis".
- "ADG Colleferro Agora" (several times champions Italy)
- "Volleyball Colleferro Volleyball
- "A. S. D. Swimming Colleferro water polo
- "ASD Basketball Colleferro Basketball
- "ASD Colleferro Athletics Athletics
External links
Categories:- Cities and towns in Lazio
- Communes of the Province of Rome
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