Anversa degli Abruzzi

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Anversa degli Abruzzi
coat of arms
Anversa degli Abruzzi (Italy)
Anversa degli Abruzzi
Country Italy
region Abruzzo
province L'Aquila  (AQ)
Coordinates 42 ° 0 ′  N , 13 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 17 ″  E
height 560  m slm
surface 31.69 km²
Residents 325 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 10 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 67030
prefix 0864
ISTAT number 066004
Popular name anversani
Patron saint Marcellus
Website Anversa degli Abruzzi
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Anversa degli Abruzzi is an Italian municipality with 325 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of L'Aquila ( Abruzzo ) and is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The most beautiful places in Italy).

history

In the Catalogo dei Baroni of the Norman king Ruggero II from 1150, the land around Anversa is assigned to a Simone di Sangro as property. As early as 1187 there was a court for civil matters and crimes. The successor Raynaldo di Sangro. Antonio da Sangro had the Norman fort , which is now only in ruins, built in 1406. Under the patronage of Count Gianvincenzo Belfrato, the l'Accademia letteraria degli Addormentati , the first academy in Abruzzo, was founded here in 1539 , which continued until 1631. The portal of the Madonna delle Grazie church from the 16th century reminds of this .

Worth seeing

In addition to the castle ruins, there are some other buildings worth seeing in Anversa degli Abruzzi:

  • the three-nave church of Santa Maria delle Grazie (XVI century) in Romanesque style.
  • the church of San Marcello (11th century) in Romanesque style with a late Gothic portal.
  • Remains of the wall of the church of San Vincenzo (13th century), where a monk was buried in 1333.

Viticulture

In the municipality of vines are varieties Montepulciano for the DOC - wine Montepulciano d'Abruzzo grown.

literature

The ruins of the fort inspired Gabriele D'Annunzio to write his novel The Light under the Bushel .

  • Roger Willemsen: The Abruzzo. The mountains in the heart of Italy. Art, culture and history. Cologne 1990, p. 88, fig. 8, 11.

Web links

Commons : Anversa degli Abruzzi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ a b I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed August 31, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Ekkehart Rotter, Roger Willemsen, Elfriede Pokorny: Abruzzen, Molise: Romanesque abbeys, defiant forts and baroque churches between the high mountains and the Adriatic coast . In: DuMont Art Travel Guide . 2nd Edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6612-4 , p. 196 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 29, 2017]).