Grottaglie
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Country | Italy | |
region | Apulia | |
province | Tarent (TA) | |
Coordinates | 40 ° 32 ' N , 17 ° 26' E | |
height | 133 m slm | |
surface | 101 km² | |
Residents | 31,635 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 313 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 74023 | |
prefix | 099 | |
ISTAT number | 073008 | |
Popular name | Grottagliesi | |
Patron saint | San Francesco De Geronimo and San Ciro | |
Website | Grottaglie | |
Grottaglie, the Chiesa Madre |
Grottaglie is an Italian municipality with 31,635 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Taranto in Apulia .
location
The place is 23 kilometers east of Taranto on the Taranto – Brindisi railway line .
history
The name of the community comes from the Latin Cryptae Aliae , which means grottos , caves and the like. When the barbarians destroyed the small villages of Rudiae and Mesocoro as well as Taranto in 960 , the inhabitants fled to such grottos, where they then lived. This resulted in various hamlets and farmhouses, including the Casale Cryptalearum , which the Normans donated to the Archbishop of Taranto in the eleventh century . At the end of the 14th century, this fiefdom was fortified by city walls.
economy
The most important feature is the ceramic production , which over the centuries has become the main economic source. She mainly deals with bricks , pots and even nativity figures . In the ceramic district, the so-called industrial area of the city, there are more than fifty workshops that have been in operation since the sixteenth century. The most characteristic products are the so-called capasone (a vase or amphora-shaped container of large size for wine or olive oil), the srulu (a type of jug for wine or water) and the pumo (a decorative object in the shape of a pine cone , which is traditionally used at the corners of the balconies). In addition, there is a state art school in the village that has been training in ceramic processing since 1889.
Taranto airfield is located near Grottaglie . The civil part is operated by the airport company SEAP, which is also responsible for the commercial airports in Bari and Brindisi . The civil part is also home to the production facilities of Alenia Aeronautica , which manufactures parts of the fuselage of the new Boeing 787 . Italian naval aviation units are stationed on the military section .
Sons and daughters of the church
- Franz de Hieronymo SJ (1642–1716), Catholic religious, saint
- Ciro Michele Esposito (1912–1994), ceramicist
- Giuseppe Spagnulo (1936–2016), sculptor
- Salvatore Ligorio (* 1948), Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo
- Ottavio Vitale RCJ (* 1959), Catholic priest, Bishop of Lezha
- Thomas Fabbiano (* 1989), tennis player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.