Cisternino

Cisternino
Country	Italy
region	Apulia
province	Brindisi  (BR)
Coordinates	40 ° 45 ′  N , 17 ° 25 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 17 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E
height	392  m slm
surface	54 km²
Residents	11,470 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	212 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	72014
prefix	080
ISTAT number	074005
Popular name	Cistranesi
Patron saint	San Quirico e Giulitta
Alley in Cisternino

Cisternino is an Italian municipality in the province of Brindisi in Apulia and is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

overview

Cisternino with 11,470 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) is located at the southeast end of the Murgia landscape . The neighboring communities are Fasano , Locorotondo ( BA ), Martina Franca ( TA ) and Ostuni . Districts ( frazioni ) are: Caranna, Casalini, Marinelli and Sisto. The distance to the southeastern provincial capital Brindisi is about 50 km.

The predominantly agricultural community mainly produces olives and grapes. It belongs to the Salento wine region and is located in the Valle d'Itria , known for its trulli .

Mayor is Luca Convertini.

history

Finds show that the area around Cisternino was inhabited as early as the Paleolithic . The city itself is believed to have been founded by the Messapians who lived in Salento before the Greeks and Romans . Even before the Punic Wars , the city came under Roman rule under the name Sturnimum .

The name Cisturninum appears for the first time in 1180 in a bull of Pope Alexander III. to the Bishop of Monopoli . The following centuries ran parallel to the history of Apulia and the Kingdom of Naples . They brought constantly changing, usually foreign rulers with them, including the Normans (11th – 12th centuries), the Hohenstaufen (12th – 13th centuries), the Anjou (13th – 15th centuries) and Aragón ( 15th - early 18th century), the Habsburgs (18th century) and - with a Napoleonic interruption - the Bourbons (18th - 19th centuries). In the course of the Italian struggle for freedom in 1861 with the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy, foreign rule was shaken off after many centuries.

traffic

The train station of Cisternino is located on the railway line Martina Franca-Lecce .

Twin town

In 2000, the city ​​entered into a partnership with the Swiss city ​​of Kreuzlingen on Lake Constance in the canton of Thurgau .

Personalities

• Martino Scarafile (1927–2011), Roman Catholic Bishop of Castellaneta

Web links

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

• Official website of Cisternino

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed September 9, 2017 (Italian).