Pulsano

Pulsano
Country	Italy
region	Apulia
province	Tarent  (TA)
Coordinates	40 ° 23 '  N , 17 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 23 '3 "  N , 17 ° 21' 17"  E
height	37  m slm
surface	18.77 km²
Residents	11,382 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	606 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	74026
prefix	099
ISTAT number	073022
Popular name	Pulsanesi
Patron saint	Tryphon
Website	Pulsano

Pulsano (also Puzànu or Pusànu in the Salentine dialect ) is a southern Italian municipality in the province of Taranto in Apulia and is located about 14 kilometers southeast of the city center of Taranto .
Pulsano is one of the communities that have joined together to form the Unione di comuni "Terre del Mare e del Sole" .
The district ( fraction ) Marina di Pulsano is located directly on the Gulf of Taranto on the Ionian Sea , about 4 kilometers south of the city center of Pulsano.

View of the sea at Marina di Pulsano

At Marina di Pulsano, above the beach of Lido Silvana, is Torre Castelluccia , a name that denotes both a 16th century tower that was part of a defensive network of 14 coastal towers in this region, and one prehistoric settlement discovered and partially researched near the tower . This existed from the middle Italian Bronze Age to the early Iron Age (approximately from the 15th / 14th century BC to the early 1st millennium BC).

Sons and daughters

• Angelo Raffaele Panzetta (* 1966), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina

Web links

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

• Brief information on Torre Castelliuccia on Pro Loco di Pulsano (Italian)

Individual evidence

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