Mezzojuso

Mezzojuso
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Metropolitan city	Palermo  (PA)
Local name	Menzujusu
Coordinates	37 ° 52 '  N , 13 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 52 '0 "  N , 13 ° 28' 0"  E
height	534  m slm
surface	49 km²
Residents	2,797 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	57 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	90030
prefix	091
ISTAT number	082047
Popular name	Mezzojusani
Website	Comune Mezzojuso
Churches Annunziata (left) and San Nicolo in Piazza Pricipale

Mezzojuso is a city of Metropolitan city of Palermo in the Region of Sicily in Italy with 2,797 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Mezzojuso is 48 km south of Palermo . The inhabitants mainly work in agriculture, forestry or wood processing. The Catholics of the Byzantine and Latin rites belong to the Eparchy Piana degli Albanesi of the Italo-Albanian Church .

The neighboring municipalities are Campofelice di Fitalia , Cefalà Diana , Ciminna , Godrano and Villafrati .

After rail traffic to Mezzojuso was discontinued in 1954, the place can only be reached by road today.

history

The Arabs founded the village of Manzil Yusuf here, the current name is derived from it. In the middle of the 15th century Albanian refugees settled here , who had fled the Ottomans from what is now the states of Albania and Greece .

Attractions

• Annunziata Church from the 16th century; the facade and the campanile date from 1924.
• San Nicolo Church of the Italo-Albanian Church from the 16th century
• Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie 16th century

literature

• Onofrio Buccola: La colonia greco-albanese di Mezzojuso , origini vicende e progresso, stick. Tipografico F. Andò, Palermo, 1909, accessed on November 12, 2016 (Italian)
• Pietro Di Marco: Il Monastero di Mezzojuso nella storia culturale arbëreshe . In: Mediaeval Sophia. 2 (2007), pp. 5-23.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Information on Mezzojuso . Retrieved April 19, 2012.

Web links

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

• Information from the municipality (Italian)
• Information about Mezzojuso (Italian)
• More information about Mezzojuso (Italian)