Agostino Burgarella

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Agostino Burgarella Ajola (born December 8, 1823 in Trapani , † December 14, 1892 in Suez ) was a Sicilian industrialist. The Burgarella family belonged to the long-established bourgeoisie in Trapani.

Life

Agostino was the son of Agostino Burgarella Nasta and his wife Aurelia Ajola. He became politically active at an early age and took part in the Risorgimento in 1860 . Together with his two brothers Gaspare and Sylvester Giuseppe Garibaldi , he set sail from Genoa on the “Train of Thousands” and landed at Marsala on May 11 of the same year . So he became a participant in the Battle of Calatafimi and helped defeat the Bourbon forces under General Franceso Landi . The Lombardo victory flag, which he gave to his uncle Gaspare Burgarella Nasta in Trapani, is still kept in the Agostino Pepoli State Museum. There is also a manuscript by Garibaldi in which the circumstances are explained in more detail. All three received bronze medals for military valor.

Later, Burgarella was a successful entrepreneur, especially in the tuna business and the salt trade. He owned several salt fields in Trapani and abroad, especially in Aden and Tripoli , but also in Port Said , Massaua and Bur Sudan . Soon after the first successes in his trading activities, he moved there near his salt fields in the Bay of Assab , for which he had received a concession for 99 years from the British government in 1883. Its business reached as far as India and China. In 1872 he was awarded a Medal of Honor for improvements in the Trapani landscape.

At the end of his life, he built the summer residence Villa Burgarella , called “Le Torri” , in a side street off Via Guglielmo Marconi .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Salvatore Costanza: Nove ragazzi in una storia che non c'è , in larisaccamensiletrapanese.it
  2. ↑ La Mediterranea , pp. 183-184
  3. ^ George Walter Prothero : Arabia , Stationery Office, London 1920, p. 84
  4. ↑ Le Saline di Aden on www.trapaninostra.it
  5. ↑ 1872. Miglioramenti agricoli nell'agro trapanese. Medaglia d'onore al cav. Agostino Burgarella "Ajola , Archivio Centrale dello Stato, 2012
  6. ↑ Bagli e ville del Comune di Trapani. Regione Siciliana, no year, p. 44
personal data
SURNAME Burgarella, Agostino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgarella Ajola, Agostino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION sicilian businessman
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Trapani
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1892
Place of death Suez , Egypt