Caltabellotta

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Caltabellotta
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Caltabellotta (Italy)
Caltabellotta
Country Italy
region Sicily
Free community consortium Agrigento  (AG)
Local name Cataviddotta
Coordinates 37 ° 35 '  N , 13 ° 13'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 34 '42 "  N , 13 ° 13' 3"  E
height 949  m slm
surface 123.55 km²
Residents 3,420 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 28 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 92010
prefix 0925
ISTAT number 084007
Popular name Caltabellottesi
Patron saint San Pellegrino
Website Caltabellotta

Caltabellotta is an Italian municipality in the free municipal consortium of Agrigento in the autonomous region of Sicily with 3420 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Caltabellotta

Caltabellotta is 63 km north-west of Agrigento at an altitude of 949 m. Agriculture is the city's main industry. Produced olives , wine and citrus fruits.

The neighboring municipalities of Caltabellotta are Bisacquino ( PA ), Burgio , Calamonaci , Chiusa Sclafani (PA), Giuliana (PA), Ribera , Sambuca di Sicilia , Sciacca and Villafranca Sicula .

The district of Sant'Anna is located southeast of Caltabellotta.

history

The Siculian city ​​of Triocala was located here in ancient times. The city was one of the main places of the slaves . Later the city was destroyed by the Romans. The Arabs founded a new city and named itقلعة البلوط / Qalʿat al-Ballūṭ  / 'oak castle ' ( qalʿa Arabic for “rock” and “castle”; ballūṭ Arabic for the green oak Quercus baloot ).

When the Roman-German Emperor Heinrich VI. of the death of Tankreds († February 20, 1194), King of the Kingdom of Sicily , learned, he moved with a large army to Italy. With little resistance he occupied Naples in August 1194 and subjugated Sicily in November of the same year. Sibylle von Acerra , the widow of Tankred, sought protection with her children in the citadel of Caltabellotta. Henry VI. offered Sibylle the county of Lecce and Wilhelm III for the renunciation of the kingdom . the principality of Taranto , which was accepted by Sybille and confirmed by Heinrich in the agreement of Caltabellotta in December 1194.

The peace between the Spanish Aragon and the French Anjou was concluded in Caltabellotta on April 19, 1288 . After the Sicilian Vespers , at which Anjou lost Sicily, Anjou renounced Sicily in the Peace of Caltabellotta in 1302 .

In 2010 Nicolo Cottone from Solingen was appointed ambassador for Caltabellotta.

Attractions

Piazza Fontana in the district of Sant'Anna
  • Church of San Lorenzo from the 16th century, inside there is the sculpture Lamentation of Christ by Antonio Ferraro from 1552
  • Church of Sant 'Agostino from the 16th century, inside the plastic Descent from the Cross by Antonio Ferraro (1552)
  • Church of Madre from Norman times, inside a Madonna by Gagini
  • Fortress, here the peace treaty of Caltabellotta was signed in 1288

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Melchiore Trigilia: S. Pellegrino di Caltabellotta. Dalla leggenda alla storia. Caltabellotta 2011, pp. 5, 9 f.
  3. ↑ Michele Amari: Biblioteca arabo-sicula , Volume I . Ermanno Loescher, Turin, Rome 1880, p. 78 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Memorie storico-diplomatiche dell'antica citta e ducato di Amalfi…, Volume 1 . Stabilimento Tipografico Nazionale, Salerno 1876, p. 373 (Italian, online version in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ La Voce, Sept. 2010, p. 19 (PDF; 18 kB)

Web links

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