Pratola Peligna

Pratola Peligna
Country	Italy
region	Abruzzo
province	L'Aquila  (AQ)
Coordinates	42 ° 6 '  N , 13 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 5 '57 "  N , 13 ° 52' 29"  E
height	342  m slm
surface	28.27 km²
Residents	7,425 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	263 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	67035
prefix	0864
ISTAT number	066075
Popular name	Pratolani
Patron saint	Maria Santissima della Libera
Website	Pratola Peligna
Pratola Peligna

Pratola Peligna is an Italian municipality ( comune ) with 7,425 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of L'Aquila in Abruzzo . The municipality is located about 49 kilometers southeast of L'Aquila and about 36 kilometers southwest of Chieti . Pratola Peligna borders directly on the province of Pescara . It is part of the Comunità montana peligna and the Parco Nazionale della Majella . The Sagittario flows through the municipality .

history

The Peligna valley was already populated in the first millennium BC by the Peligners, an Oscar-Umbrian people. Presumably the municipality was also settled. However, there is no evidence of this. There is evidence of an Ostrogoth tomb from the 6th century AD. The place was first mentioned in a document in 997. In 1170 the fortification of Pratula ( castrum pratulae ) is handed over to the Norman prince Wilhelm II .

traffic

The A25 motorway runs through the municipality from Rome to Pescara and the Strada Statale 17 dell'Appennino Abruzzese e Appulo Sannitica from L'Aquila to Isernia and on to Foggia . On the railway line from Rome via Sulmona to Pescara there is a train station in Pratola Peligna.

Web links

Commons : Pratola Peligna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.