Pozzallo

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Pozzallo
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Pozzallo (Italy)
Pozzallo
Country Italy
region Sicily
Free community consortium Ragusa  (RG)
Local name (U) Puzzaddu
Coordinates 36 ° 44 '  N , 14 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 44 '0 "  N , 14 ° 51' 0"  E
height 20  m slm
surface 14.94 km²
Residents 19,351 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 1,295 inhabitants / km²
Factions Pozzallo
Post Code 97016
prefix 0932
ISTAT number 088008
Popular name Pozzallesi
Patron saint San Giovanni Battista
Website Pozzallo

Pozzallo is a town in Ragusa consortium of municipalities outside in the region of Sicily in Italy with 19,351 inhabitants (December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Pozzallo is located 30 km southeast of Ragusa directly on the Mediterranean coast . The inhabitants work in agriculture (cultivation of carob and vegetables), in industry, in fishing or in shipping.

The neighboring municipalities are Ispica and Modica .

history

The fishing village developed into a town around a tower. Since the 15th century it has been recorded on ship maps, the name means fountain by the sea . Merchant ships docked here to bring fresh water on board. In 1829 the community became independent. Today Pozzallo is known for the thousands of migrants from North Africa ( Libya , Tunisia and Egypt ) who are found dead here or who go ashore, are cared for and seek asylum in Europe.

Attractions

  • Torre Cabrera, 15th century tower with historic vaults
  • Musso Palace, built in 1845, redesigned in Art Nouveau in 1928
  • Fishing port with an upstream oil loading station
  • There are a few beaches outside the city

traffic

Pozzallo train station on the Canicattì – Syracuse railway line is the southernmost passenger train station in Italy. The travel time to Ragusa is around 1 hour, to Syracuse around 1 hour and 10 minutes.

Ferries to Malta leave from Pozzallo . The Pozzallo heliport is located near the port .

Sons and daughters

photos

  • The Torre Cabrera

  • The tower from the beach

  • Ship graveyard with refugee boats in the port of Pozzallo

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Sandro Mattioli: Love your neighbor. In Pozallo in Sicily, the locals go to the funerals of the drowned refugees. Some give their best sheet for the dead. The magazine N ° 46, November 15, 2014, pages 28-44