Rapolla

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Rapolla
coat of arms
Rapolla (Italy)
Rapolla
Country Italy
region Basilicata
province Potenza  (PZ)
Coordinates 40 ° 59 ′  N , 15 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 59 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
height 447  m slm
surface 29.05 km²
Residents 4,289 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 148 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 85027
prefix 0972
ISTAT number 076064
Popular name Rapollesi
Patron saint San Biagio
Website Rapolla
Rapolla Cathedral
Rapolla Cathedral

Rapolla is an Italian comune and city in the province of Potenza in the Basilicata region .

Location and dates

Rapolla is 50 km north of Potenza and has 4289 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). The municipality is a member of the Comunità Montana del Vulture and the Associazione Nazionale Città del Vino . The neighboring municipalities are Barile , Lavello , Melfi , Rionero in Vulture and Venosa .

history

Rapolla goes back to a foundation of the Romans, who called the place Strapellum . At the end of the 10th century, Greek monks from Sicily settled here. The founding of the monastery of Vitalis is no longer verifiable after the translation of the saint around the middle of the 11th century. Until the 11th century the town developed, it was Nicholas II. Romunmittelbarer (the Pope directly imputed) bishopric , which was in union with 1,528 Melfi.

The city was destroyed by earthquakes in 1851 and 1930. The 1980 earthquake also caused considerable damage. By the end of the 19th century, Rapolla already had a cooperative bank, water pipes and sewers were inaugurated by the fascist Podestà Pietro Dardes in 1933. The Rapolla - Gioia del Colle railway was opened in 1892 .

coat of arms

A renaissance shield with a green border bears a field split in gold and silver and shows two red-tongued coiling snakes . A wall crown with five towers, each crowned with three Italian battlements , hovers over the shield .

The shield is surrounded by an olive branch on the right and a fruit-bearing laurel on the other. Both branches are tied with a ribbon in the national colors.

Attractions

Construction of the cathedral began in 1209 and was completed in 1253. The church of Santa Lucia was the episcopal church of Rapolla until the consecration of the cathedral.

literature

  • Nicola Fuccilo: Rapolla, ieri e oggi . Lavello 1985?
  • Mauro Ala: Storia di Rapolla . Napoli 1983
  • Francesco Chiaromonte: Breve dissertazione sul sarcofago marmoreo ritrovato nel tenimento di Rapolla nel di 12 maggio 1856 . Reprint of the Naples 1860 edition, Naples 1988
  • Luisa Derosa: La Basilicata ei terremoti: il fortuito caso della cattedrale di Rapolla . Melfi: Tarsia, a cura del Centro UNLA, stampa 2001

Web links

Commons : Rapolla  - 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.
  2. ^ Monasticon Italiae III: Puglia e Basilicata a cura di Giovanni Lunardi, Hubert Houben , Giovanni Spinelli. Prefazione di Cosimo Damiano Fonseca . Cesena 1986 (Monasticon Italiae. Repertorio topo-bibliografico dei monasteri italiani, 3) pp. 194f.
  3. ↑ Rapolla: 20 anni dal terremoto: dossier sul sisma del 1980 e sulla ricostruzione. Testi di Gianluca Tartaglia, 2000 evidence in SBN-Opac
  4. ↑ Banca Cooperativa di credito dell'associazione artigiana agricola di Rapolla: Relazione del Comitato dei sindaci . Melfi: Tip. Grieco Ed Ercolani, 1894 Proof in SBN-Opac
  5. ↑ Discorso pronunziato dal podesta di Rapolla, comm. Pietro Dardes, il 26 November dell'anno 12th, in occasione della inaugurazione dell'acquedotto, della fognatura e della consegna della bandiera offerta alla locale stazione dei reali carabinieri . Melfi: stab. tip. Del Secolo, A. 12. (1933–1934), evidence in SBN.Opac
  6. ↑ Passover il Treno ||| : Numero-Ricordo della inaugurazione della ferroviaria Rapolla - Gioia dal Colle . Bologna: Litografia F. Casanova, 1892 evidence in SBN-Opac
  7. ^ Evidence in the SBN Opac
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