Agira

Agira
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Free community consortium	Enna (EN)
Local name	Aggira
Coordinates	37 ° 39 ′ N , 14 ° 31 ′ E Coordinates: 37 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E
height	650 m slm
surface	163.11 km²
Residents	8,017 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	49 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	94011
prefix	0935
ISTAT number	086001
Popular name	Agirini
Patron saint	St. Philip
Website	Agira
	; Agira - view from the west

Agira is a city in Enna consortium of municipalities outside the region Sicily in Italy with 8017 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

location

The municipality of Agira is 37 km east of Enna at an altitude of 650 m above Lago Pozzillo . Agira is on the SS 121 Adrano - Leonforte .

The inhabitants live mainly from agriculture. There are cereals , legumes , almonds , olives and wine produced. In the trades, there are other jobs in carpentry and forging . There are also quarries and mineral water springs in the Agira area .

The neighboring municipalities are Assoro , Castel di Iudica ( CT ), Catenanuova , Enna , Gagliano Castelferrato , Nissoria , Ramacca (CT) and Regalbuto .

history

Agira was born in 399 BC. Founded as a Greek city. The name at the time was Agyrion . After that, the Romans and the Arabs ruled . The structure of the place has been preserved from the Arab period. In 1693 the community was badly damaged by an earthquake .

Attractions

There are numerous churches worth seeing in Agira. Almost all of them are from the 16th century:

Chiesa Sant'Antonio di Padova

panorama

Chiesa e oratorio Santissimo Salvatore with an Aragonese portal, it is in the Piazza Roma
Chiesa Santa Margherita, the largest church in Agira, it has 14 columns
Chiesa San Pietro Apostolo
Chiesa Santa Maria Satira
Badia San Filippo, with paintings by Giuseppe Velasquez
Chiesa Sant'Antonio di Padova, with a statue of St. New Year's
Chiesa Sant'Antonio Abate
Chiesa Annunziata
Chiesa di San Tommaso
Chiesa e convento di Sant'Agostino
Chiesa del Purgatorio
Chiesa della Madonna del Carmelo
Chiesa di Santa Chiara
Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli
Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie
Chiesa di Santa Maria di Gesù
Convento dei Minori Riformati

On the hill there is still a fort with towers from Arab times.

Web links

Commons : Agira - collection of images, videos and audio files

Christian Hülsen : Agyrion . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 913 f.
Information about Agira ( Memento of December 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

[1] Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.