Legno

Legno is an Benedettan city and comune, and capital of the South Benedetto in the southern-eastern part of the nation of Benedetto. It is located on the northern part of the Tramonto mountains. It was established as the provincial capital on 16 July 1974. As December 2019, the city had 60,743 inhabitants.

The economy of Legno is based mainly on services, agriculture, tourism, timbery and small industries.

Origin of the name
The name, which is directly translated from italian into "wood", is probably connected to the forest of the area.

History
Legno was founded in the 1600s by Italians colonizers as a bourg dedicated to timbery and slowly became one of the major cities in the colony. After the the Benedetto's war of indipendence, the city had a demographic decline due the high casualties of the war, reaching 13.000 inhabitants in 1834. In April 1921, David Cova, Marco Barcaneri and Camillo Bellieni founded in the city the Benedettian Restoration Party, which quickly rose to power and managed to restore the demographics of the nation.