Salaparuta

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Salaparuta
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Salaparuta (Italy)
Salaparuta
Country Italy
region Sicily
Free community consortium Trapani  (TP)
Local name Salaparuta
Coordinates 37 ° 45 ′  N , 13 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
height 171  m slm
surface 41 km²
Residents 1,615 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 39 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 91020
prefix 0924
ISTAT number 081017
Popular name Salaparutani or Salitani

Salaparuta is an Italian municipality in the free municipal consortium of Trapani in the autonomous region of Sicily with 1615 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Salaparuta is 83 km southeast of Trapani at an altitude of 171 m and covers an area of ​​41 km². The inhabitants live mainly from agriculture.

The neighboring communities are Contessa Entellina ( PA ), Gibellina , Montevago , Partanna , Poggioreale , Santa Margherita di Belice ( AG ) and Santa Ninfa .

history

The fertile region of Belice has been settled in history by Romans, Greeks, Normans and Saracens, among others. The latter were the first to build houses just below the castle, which was already built on a hill. The name Salaparuta is a word creation from the Arabic “Salah”, which in the 12th century referred to several farmhouses in the hills, and the family name “Paruta”. Girolamo Paruta, who was named “15th Herr von Sala ”had the“ Lignuduci ”quarter built, called the village - together with the existing Salah - comprising several houses, first“ Sala dei Paruta ”, later“ Salaparuta ”. At the same time he was appointed 1st Baron von Sala. The village was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. Salaparuta was not rebuilt in the same place, but about four kilometers southeast of the old village center. The ruins of the old village - as in the other earthquake-affected villages in the area - were never cleared away.

Attractions

  • Parish church with an old statue of Saint Catherine from the old parish church.
  • From Salaparuta, the “Cretto di Burri”, also called “Grande Cretto di Gibellina”, about seven kilometers away can be seen very well. Alberto Burri (1919–1995) realized this land art monument from 1985–89; it was only completed in 2015 by other artists. In this art project, the ruined houses of the village Gibellina , which was completely destroyed by the 1968 earthquake, were completely covered with cement, so that Gibellina vecchia, the old village, is passable again along the old streets, while along the streets and paths the white prismatic house plots of up to six meters soar high.

Web links

Commons : Salaparuta  - 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. ↑ Baldassare Graffagnino: Salaparuta Ieri e Oggi '92. (Salaparuta 1992)
  3. ↑ Il cretto di burri, in: www.repubblica.it, October 16, 2015. [1]