Syracuse Free Community Consortium
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State : | Italy |
Region : | Sicily |
Area : | 2,108 km² |
Residents : | 397,037 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
Population density : | 188 inhabitants / km² |
Number of municipalities: | 21st |
License plate : | SR |
ISO-3166-2 identification : | IT-SR |
Website: | Syracuse Free Community Consortium |
The Free Community Consortium Syracuse (Italian Libero consorzio comunale di Siracusa ) is an administrative unit of the autonomous region of Sicily in Italy . The capital is Syracuse . It was created through the transformation of the Province of Syracuse ( Provincia di Siracusa in Italian ) with Regional Law No. 8 of March 24, 2014 and the provisions of Regional Law No. 15 of August 4, 2015.
The Free Community Consortium is located in the south-east of Sicily on the Ionian Sea . In the north and in the north-west it borders on the metropolitan city of Catania , in the south-west on the Free Municipal Consortium Ragusa . It is divided into 21 parishes. Around 397,037 people live in an area of 2,108 km² (as of December 31, 2019) .
The capital Syracuse with numerous archaeological finds from ancient Greece, the necropolis of Pantalica and the late baroque cities of Noto and Palazzolo Acreide have been declared a World Heritage Site.
Largest communities
(As of December 31, 2019)
local community | Residents |
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Syracuse | 120,405 |
Augusta | 35,698 |
Avola | 31,145 |
Lentini | 22,979 |
Noto | 24,154 |
Floridia | 22,557 |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana - Regione Sicilia, Legge regional 24 March 2014, n.8 : Istituzione dei liberi Consorzi comunali e delle Città metropolitane , accessed on 23 June 2020
- ↑ Gazzetta Ufficiale della Regione Siciliana - Legge 4 agosta 2015, n.15 : Disposizioni in materia di liberi Consorzi comunali e Città metropolitane (PDF file; 213 kB), accessed on June 23, 2020