Framura

Framura
Country	Italy
region	Liguria
province	La Spezia  (SP)
Coordinates	44 ° 13 '  N , 9 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 13 '0 "  N , 9 ° 32' 0"  E
height	50  m slm
surface	18 km²
Residents	629 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	35 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	19014
prefix	0187
ISTAT number	011014
Popular name	Framuresi
Website	www.comune.framura.sp.it
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Framura ( Ligurian Framûa ) is an Italian municipality with 629 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of La Spezia in Liguria and is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

Geography and church structure

Framura coast

Framura is located in a rugged bay on the Ligurian Riviera di Levante (Coast of the Rising Sun).

The municipality consists of the five localities ( fractions ):

• Anzo
• Castagnola
• Costa
• Ravecca
• Setta (seat of the municipal administration)

The Serro mountain (421 m) is the highest point in the municipality of Framura and part of the Cinque Terre National Park . Until 2009, the municipality was part of the now dissolved Comunità Montana della Riviera Spezzina administrative community .

history

Archaeological finds prove the presence of the Ligurians in the region of today's Framura . At the time of the Roman Empire , the place had the status of a pagus and was owned by the monastery of San Colombano di Bobbio since the Lombard era and in the Middle Ages it passed into the possession of the Da Passano family, who originally came from the village of the same name near Deiva Marina originated and left some fortifications from the 9th century.

In 1170, Count von Lavagna from the Fieschi family occupied the castle of Frascario and the Lords of Passano were driven out. After a long controversy, the castle returned to Genoa .

Like all Italian Tyrrhenian coasts, Framura had to defend itself against Islamic incursions over the centuries, as the three watchtowers still show today.

1797, the municipality of Framura re-entered the department of Vara with the capital Levanto in the Ligurian Republic with the Napoleonic rule from December 2nd . From April 28, 1798, Framura again belonged to the seventh canton with the capital Deiva Marina with the new French regulations . From June 13, 1805 to 1814 with the era of the First French Republic , the place was included in the Apennines department . From 1815 it belongs to the Kingdom of Sardinia . From 1859 to 1927 the area was reassigned to the province of Genoa and included in the province of La Spezia .

From 1973 to December 31, 2008 it was part of the mountain community of the Spezzina Riviera.

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  Carolingian watchtower
  ( torre carolingia )

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  Genoese watch tower
  ( torre genovese )

Population development

year	1861	1871	1881	1901	1911	1921	1931	1936	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2016
population	1119	1236	1230	1193	1236	1383	1256	1282	1216	1042	972	913	839	744	655

Attractions

Beleuteter historic railroad tunnel with bicycle route

Historic center of the district of Costa

• Religious landmarks
  • Parish Church of San Lorenzo in Castagnola
  • Parish Church of San Martino in Costa
• Other structures
  • Carolingian Tower of Costa
  • Coastal bike path Maremonti to Bonassola and on to Levanto
• botany
  • Botanical garden of Monte Serro

Festivals, celebrations and commemorations

• Festa della Madonna della Neve , on the first Sunday of August in Porticciolo, religious commemoration of those who have died in the sea
• Festa di San Rocco on August 16
• Festa di Santa Lucia on the last Sunday of August
• Festa patronale di San Lorenzo on August 10th in Castagnola

sons and daughters of the town

• Giovanni Battista de Passano, Prefect
• Trento Longaretti, Italian painter

Economy and Infrastructure

The Framura railway station

Many residents of the community pursue their income mainly in tourism. Otherwise there are small, family-run shops.

A railway station on the Pisa – Genoa railway connects the community with the neighboring villages and with La Spezia and Sestri Levante .

Web links

Commons : Framura  - album with pictures, 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. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed July 27, 2017 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Portal of the Ligurian mountain communities in liquidation ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ History notes about Framura at framura.eu, accessed on May 31, 2020.
5. ^ History of the rapid cycle route , (Italian), ciclopedonalemaremonti website for the Maremonti coastal cycle route, accessed on April 24, 2018.
6. ↑ Framura at cinqueterre.eu, accessed on May 31, 2020.