Poggioreale (Sicily)
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Country | Italy | |
region | Sicily | |
Free community consortium | Trapani (TP) | |
Local name | Poggiuriali / Puggiuriali | |
Coordinates | 37 ° 46 ' N , 13 ° 2' E | |
height | 189 m slm | |
surface | 37 km² | |
Residents | 1,454 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
Population density | 39 inhabitants / km² | |
Post Code | 91020 | |
prefix | 0924 | |
ISTAT number | 081016 | |
Popular name | Poggiorealesi | |
Website | Poggioreale |
Poggioreale is a municipality in the Free Municipal Consortium Trapani in the region of Sicily in Italy with 1454 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).
Location and dates
Poggioreale is 80 km southwest of Palermo . The inhabitants live mainly from agriculture.
The neighboring communities are Contessa Entellina ( PA ), Gibellina , Monreale ( PA ) and Salaparuta .
history
Excavations near Poggioreale revealed traces of a settlement from the 7th century BC. Proven. The old village was founded in 1642 at an altitude of 393 m in the Gibelliner Mountains. The settlement was destroyed in the earthquake in the Belice valley in 1968 and completely abandoned by the residents. Unlike in neighboring communities such as Salaparuta or Gibellina, the houses had not collapsed completely, so the old village seems to be intact from a distance, but in reality it is a ghost town . For the Palermitan singer-songwriter Pippo Pollina , who lives in Zurich , this ghost town served as a photo backdrop for the CD booklet of the album Il Sole Che Verrà (2017). A few years after the earthquake, the new village was rebuilt a few kilometers down the valley.
Attractions
- Archaeological Museum
- Parish church from 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ^ Photographs by Thomas Deicke
- ↑ Pippo Pollina: Il Sole Che Verrà (Jazzhaus Records, 2017).