Centuripe

Centuripe
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Free community consortium	Enna  (EN)
Local name	Centorbi
Coordinates	37 ° 37 '  N , 14 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 37 '0 "  N , 14 ° 44' 0"  E
height	730  m slm
surface	173.18 km²
Residents	5,272 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	30 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	94010
prefix	0935
ISTAT number	086007
Popular name	Centuripini
Patron saint	San Prospero
Website	Centuripe

View of Centuripe

View from Carcaci Castle to Etna

Centuripe is a town in Enna consortium of municipalities outside the region Sicily in Italy with 5272 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Centuripe is located 80 km northeast of Enna . The inhabitants mainly work in agriculture and the production of mineral water.

With the station Catenanuova-Centuripe the place has a connection to the railway line Catania- Enna and on to Palermo . The journey time to Enna is around 40 minutes.

The neighboring municipalities are Adrano ( CT ), Biancavilla (CT), Bronte (CT), Castel di Iudica (CT), Catenanuova , Paternò (CT), Randazzo (CT) and Regalbuto .

history

In ancient times , the Siculian place Kentoripa ( Greek  Κεντόριπα , Latin Centuripae ) stood here . In the 5th century BC The Greeks conquered the place. In the 3rd century BC The local ceramic production ( Centuripe genus ) developed here . After an uprising in 1233, Emperor Friedrich II destroyed the city. It was re-established in 1548 under the name Centorbi and has been called Centuripe since 1863.

Attractions

• Parish church from the 17th century
• Parts of the medieval city wall
• Archaeological museum with finds from the area, including a black-figure Attic vase with Heracles as a motif, a statue of Emperor Antoninus Pius and terracotta sculptures from the region
• Ruins of the Castello di Corradino from Roman times
• Roman house from the 2nd century with mosaics
• Ruins of Roman thermal baths
• Necropolis near the ruins of the thermal baths
• Carcaci Castle (of the Paternò family )

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  San Prospero in front of the Chiesa Madre

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  Archaeological Museum

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  Roman thermal baths

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  Roman mausoleum

literature

• Sicily. Baedeker Allianz travel guide . Verlag Karl Baedeker, Ostfildern, 8th edition 2005, ISBN 3-8297-1047-X
• P. Deussen:  CENTURIPAE Sicily . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

Web links

Commons : Centuripe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Site of Centuripe
• The most unusual village in Italy

Individual evidence

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