Canicattì

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Canicattì
coat of arms
Canicattì (Italy)
Canicattì
Country Italy
region Sicily
Free community consortium Agrigento  (AG)
Local name Caniattì / Canicattì
Coordinates 37 ° 22 '  N , 13 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 21 '36 "  N , 13 ° 51' 4"  E
height 465  m slm
surface 91.41 km²
Residents 35,530 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 389 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 92024
prefix 0922
ISTAT number 084011
Popular name Canicattinesi
Patron saint San Pancrazio
Website Canicattì
Canicatti

Canicattì [kanikatˈti] is a city in the Free Community Consortium of Agrigento in the region of Sicily in Italy with 35,530 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Canicattì is 33 km southwest of Caltanissetta and 33 km east of Agrigento . The main industries are agriculture and the service industry.

The neighboring municipalities are Caltanissetta ( CL ), Castrofilippo , Delia (CL), Montedoro (CL), Naro , Racalmuto and Serradifalco (CL).

history

The original name al-Quatah comes from Arabic. During this time the place was an important fortress. It later became feudal property of the Palmeri family, the De Crescenzi family and, from 1507 to 1819, the Bonanno family.

During the Second World War the Canicattì massacre took place in the city . American soldiers had captured the city and after the capture shot eight unarmed Italian civilians. Lieutenant Colonel Herbert McCaffrey , military governor of Palermo , learned that civilians were about to ransack a factory. He drove to the factory with a patrol from the military police and fired at the crowd when the crowd refused to disband

Attractions

  • Piazza IV Novembre, the center of the city with a statue of Gioacchino La Lomia, the Purgatorio church and the Neptune fountain
  • Bonanno fort from the 17th century, now a ruin
  • 17th century clock tower near the fort
  • Parish church from the 18th century, the facade dates from 1908
  • Spirito Santo Church from 1603, built in the Baroque style
  • Capuchin monastery with the church of Madonna della Rocca, here are the remains of Gioacchino La Lomia
  • Teatro Sociale, built 1889–1908, and Villa Firriato, both built by Ernesto Basile

  • Palazzo La Lomia

  • Chiesa Spirito Santo

  • Teatro Sociale

  • town hall

Personalities

literature

  • Stanley P. Hirshson: General Patton . HarperCollins, New York 2003, ISBN 0-06-000983-7 , pp. 378-9.
  • Alfio Caruso: Arrivano i nostri . Longanesi, 2004, ISBN 88-304-2128-6 , p. 345.
  • Giovanni Bartolone: Le altre stragi. Le stragi alleate e tedesche nella Sicilia del 1943–1944 , 2005th edition, Tipografia Aiello & Provenzano, Bagheria (PA), Italy, 2005, p. 196.

Web links

Commons : Canicattì  - 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. ↑ Giovanni Bartolone, Le altre stragi: Le stragi alleate e tedesche nella Sicilia del 1943-1944
  3. Jump up ↑ Ezio Costanzo, George Lawrence, The Mafia and the Allies: Sicily 1943 and the Return of the Mafia , Enigma, 2007, p. 119