Soragna

{{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Infobox Italian comune | name = Soragna | official_name = Comune di Soragna | native_name = | image_skyline = Piazza Bonifacio Meli Lupi (Soragna) - rocca Meli Lupi e chiesa di San Giacomo 2019-06-18.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = | image_shield = Soragna-Stemma.png | shield_alt = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|44|56|N|10|7|E|region:IT_type:city(4355)|display=inline}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = [[Emilia-Romagna]] | province = [[province of Parma|Parma]] (PR) | frazioni = Carzeto, Castellina, Diolo | mayor_party = | mayor = Marco Taccagni | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 45 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 4834 | population_as_of =31 December 2016<ref>Data from [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|Istat]]</ref> | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 49 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 43019 | area_code = 0524 | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Soragna''' ([[Parmigiano dialect|Parmigiano]]: {{lang|egl|Suràgna}}) is a town and ''[[comune]]'' in the [[Province of Parma]], northern Italy, with a population of about 4,800.

Soragna is first recorded in 712, in a document issued by the [[Lombards|Lombard]] king [[Liutprand, King of the Lombards|Liutprand]]. From 1198, it was a possession of the Lupi family and an imperial fief elevated to a marquisate in 1347 and to a principate in 1709 with the right to mint coins.

The town is home to the medieval [[Rocca (architecture)|rocca]] (fortress), later converted into a palace, known as the [[Rocca Meli Lupi]]. The first fortress on the site was built in 985 by Marquis Adalbert I of Milan, who had received Soragna and [[Busseto]] from Emperor [[Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto I]]. In the 12th century, the area was acquired by the Pallavicino family. In 1186, the castle was stormed by combined [[Guelphs and Ghibellines|Guelph]] forces from [[Piacenza]] and [[Cremona]], but the lordship was confirmed to the Pallavicino by Emperor [[Frederick Barbarossa]] in 1189. A few years later, the Lupi family acquired the castle through marriage and initiated a reconstruction program. The building contains 16th-century frescoes by [[Cesare Baglione]], possibly [[Niccolò dell'Abbate]], and other artists. The surrounding park was redesigned as an English garden around 1820.

Notable churches include: * [[Beata Vergine del Carmine e San Rocco, Soragna|Beata Vergine del Carmine e San Rocco]] * [[San Giacomo, Soragna|San Giacomo]] * [[Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova, Soragna|Oratory of Sant'Antonio da Padova]] * [[Santa Caterina D'Alessandria, Soragna|Santa Caterina D'Alessandria]]

<gallery widths=180> Image:Soragna-Rocca Meli Lupi4.jpg|Rocca Meli Lupi. Image:Soragna-Chiesa S. Giacomo.jpg|''San Giacomo'' (Saint James) church. </gallery>

==Twin towns== *{{flagicon|Slovakia}} [[Banská Štiavnica]], Slovakia

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== *{{cite book|editor=Mordacci, Alessandra|title=La Rocca di Soragna|publisher=Gazzetta di Parma Editore|location=Parma|year=2009}}

==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140903145509/http://www.roccadisoragna.it/template.php?pag=58394 Website about the Rocca di Soragna] {{in lang|it}}

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