Lauro (Campania)
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Country | Italy | |
region | Campania | |
province | Avellino (AV) | |
Coordinates | 40 ° 53 ' N , 14 ° 38' E | |
height | 192 m slm | |
surface | 11.10 km² | |
Residents | 3,429 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 309 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 83023 | |
prefix | 081 | |
ISTAT number | 064043 | |
Popular name | Lauretani | |
Patron saint | Rochus of Montpellier , Sebastian | |
Website | Lauro |
Lauro is an Italian commune with 3429 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Avellino in the Campania region . The place is part of the mountain commune Partenio - Vallo di Lauro . The inhabitants are called Lauretani .
geography
The neighboring municipalities are Carbonara di Nola (NA) , Domicella , Moschiano , Pago del Vallo di Lauro , Palma Campania (NA), Quindici and Taurano . The districts are Fontenovella, Ima, Migliano and Pignano.
Folk culture
In Vallo di Lauro with its main town Lauro there is an impressive tradition of celebrating Holy Week . On Good Friday there is a large procession , at the end of which groups dressed in white (so-called Biancovestiti ) from the various surrounding towns recite ancient sacred chants in the Campanian dialect on the main square . Historically dressed people with the Arma Christi also take part in the procession , and in neighboring Taurano the Passion of Jesus is played as Sacra rappresentazione vivente . Based on these models , Lauretani immigrated to Germany founded and designed the Passion Play in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse.
Important personalities
- Umberto Nobile (1885–1978), Italian airship pioneer and general.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ Chants of the Biancovestiti in Lauro 2013 (video, part 1)
- ↑ Chants of the Biancovestiti in Lauro 2013 (video, part 2)
- ↑ Page of the organizers ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Diane Dingeldein: The procession in Vallo di Lauro and the Passion Play in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse. A comparative study of the cultural transfer of a Good Day event. In: Yearbook for European Ethnology . Third part 5 (2010), pp. 171–194.