Province: Brescia
Hamlets: Castello, Mura, Palude, Monteacuto, Raffa e San Quirico
Bordering municipalities: Gavardo, Manerba del Garda, Muscoline, Polpenazze, Salo’, San Felice del Benaco
The name “Puegnago” is of Roman origin (Popinius for linguistic evolution became Popiniacus) or Celtic, given the suffix “needle.” What is certain is that this territory was inhabited in prehistoric times, as evidenced by the remains of pile dwellings raised in ponds Sovenigo. He was later to Roman rule (there are many tombstones found at that time) and then the Longobards. Puegnago was considered fraction of Salò until 1427, when it follows the fortunes came under the control of the Serenissima Republic of Venice. In recent years, the country became part of Valtenesi. In the seventeenth century its inhabitants were severely affected by the plague and then by looting soldiers Gallo-Hispanics during the war of the Spanish Succession plundered the country, even the money of the Society of the Body of Christ. It was later ground of Napoleonic battles became part of the Cisalpine Republic. With the end of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars Puegnago passes under the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, but with the armistice of Villafranca of 1859 is dependent on the administration about Turin and Verona for religion, even now the whole Valtenesi is under the diocese of Verona. If in the nineteenth century Puegnago, Soiano and San Felice were gathered together, only in 1928 the country was united Raffa.
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