Campobello di Mazara

Campobello di Mazara
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Free community consortium	Trapani (TP)
Local name	Campubbeddu
Coordinates	37 ° 38 ' N , 12 ° 45' E Coordinates: 37 ° 38 '0 " N , 12 ° 45' 0" E
height	110 m slm
surface	65 km²
Residents	11,607 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	179 inhabitants / km²
Factions	Tre Fontane, Torretta Granitola
Post Code	91021
prefix	0924
ISTAT number	081004
Popular name	Campobellesi
Patron saint	San Vito
Website	Campobello di Mazara

Campobello di Mazara is a town in Trapani consortium of municipalities outside the region Sicily in Italy with 11,607 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

geography

Campobello di Mazara is located 75 km south of Trapani, not far from the mouth of the Modione River into the Mediterranean Sea. The city covers an area of 65 km². The main occupation of the inhabitants is agriculture and viticulture. Tre Fontane and Torretta Granitola are districts of the municipality.

The neighboring municipalities are: Castelvetrano and Mazara del Vallo .

history

The place was founded in 1623 by Giuseppe di Napoli.

The name Campobello (German beautiful field ) may be deceptive at first glance, but the name is derived from Campo Bellico, which means "warlike field" in German. Campobello was probably a battlefield against the Saracens in the Middle Ages .

On the southern edge of today's city, near Erbe Bianche , a settlement on a limestone hill was discovered that dates from the middle Sicilian Bronze Age and was largely excavated and explored in the 1990s. It consisted of several, partly quite large, round and oval buildings. Two phases could be distinguished. Based on the local ceramics found, the complex could be assigned to the Thapsos culture . In addition, u. a. Bronze weapons discovered as well as fragments of Mycenaean pottery from the Aegean region, which date to the second half of the 13th century (period SH III B2) and come from the more recent settlement phase.

Attractions

Rocche di Cusa

Church from the 17th century, rebuilt in the 19th century
The Rocche di Cusa quarries are located near the village, where stones were extracted for the construction of Selinunte .

Web links

Commons : Campobello di Mazara - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ On the settlement of Erbe Bianche: Assia Kysnu Ingoglia - Fabrizio Nicoletti - Sebastiano Tusa: L'insediamento abitato dell'etá del Bronzo di Erbe Bianche (Campobello di Mazara, Trapani). In: Atti della XLI riunione scientificia , Florence 2012, pp. 861-870. online version

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

[2] On the settlement of Erbe Bianche: Assia Kysnu Ingoglia - Fabrizio Nicoletti - Sebastiano Tusa: L'insediamento abitato dell'etá del Bronzo di Erbe Bianche (Campobello di Mazara, Trapani). In: Atti della XLI riunione scientificia , Florence 2012, pp. 861-870. online version