Sant'Agostino, Emilia–Romagna

This article is about the Italian "frazione". For the church in Rome, see Basilica di Sant'Agostino.

Sant'Agostino
Frazione
Sant'Agostino Location of Sant'Agostino in Italy
Coordinates: 44°48′N 11°23′E
Country	Italy
Region	Emilia-Romagna
Province	Ferrara (FE)
Comune	Terre del Reno
Area
• Total	35.2 km2 (13.6 sq mi)
Elevation	15 m (49 ft)
Population  (31 December 2010)
• Total	7,106
• Density	200/km2 (520/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	44047
Dialing code	0532

Sant'Agostino was a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ferrara in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of Bologna and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Ferrara. From 1 January 2017 the comune was unified with Mirabello and the new municipality took the name of Terre del Reno.

Earthquake victims

Two workers died in a Sant'Agostino ceramics factory when the building collapsed during an earthquake which hit the region in the early morning of May 20, 2012.

The following day the affected region, which extended to Lombardy and Veneto, experienced a succession of aftershocks, the strongest of which took place in the early afternoon and was itself rated at 5.1 on the Richter scale.