San Fratello

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San Fratello
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San Fratello (Italy)
San Fratello
Country Italy
region Sicily
Metropolitan city Messina  (ME)
Local name Santu Frateddu / San Frareau
Coordinates 38 ° 1 ′  N , 14 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 38 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  E
height 675  m slm
surface 67 km²
Residents 3,466 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 52 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 98075
prefix 0941
ISTAT number 083078
Popular name Sanfratellani
Website Homepage of the community

San Fratello is a city in the metropolitan city of Messina in the Sicily region in Italy with 3466 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

San Fratello is located 119 km west of Messina and 7 km from the sea at the northern foot of the 1847 m high Monte Soro of the Monti Nebrodi . On the slopes of the 816 m high Monte San Fratello is the San Teodoro grotto with many fossil bones of mammals and flint tools. The residents mainly work in agriculture. Sanfratellan horses are bred in San Fratello.

The neighboring municipalities are Acquedolci , Alcara li Fusi , Caronia , Cesarò , Militello Rosmarino and Sant'Agata di Militello .

history

North of today's town center on a hill is the ancient Apollonia, a Sikeler settlement that was later brightensized. According to the ancient historian Diodorus , Apollonia was in the middle of the 4th century BC. Under the control of Leptines , the tyrant of Engyon; But Timoleon gave both cities in 342 BC After he had defeated the tyrant and exiled to the Peloponnese . The city was founded in 307 BC. Destroyed by Agathocles . In the 1st century Apollonia was a civitas decumana . It provided a ship for the fleet assembled to fight the pirates .

The place San Fratello was founded at the time of Rogers I by Lombards , who settled in Sicily after his marriage to Adelasia . In 1754 and 1922 landslides ravaged the city. Many residents still speak a Gallo-Italic dialect that is fundamentally different from Sicilian .

The traditions of San Fratello are upheld by the emigrants also at the destinations of their emigration ( Viggiù in Lombardy).

San Fratello

After heavy rainfall at the beginning of February 2010, the first cracks appeared in houses in the town, which indicated movement of the subsoil. Because of the impending landslide, half of the town was evacuated. A short time later the slope slid and buried several houses.

Attractions

Convent with the statue of Saint Benedict the Mohr
Festa dei Giudei
  • Castle ruins on the rock above the city from Norman times
  • San Nicolo Vecchio church next to the castle ruins
  • Convict of St. Francis
  • Church of Saints Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyrinus on the site of ancient Apollonia

sons and daughters of the town

Events

The Festa dei Giudei is held every year on Thursday and Friday during Holy Week .

literature

  • B. Rubino: Folklore di San Fratello , Palermo 1914 (ristampa anastatica Troina 1982)
  • Beppe Galli; Giuseppe Scavone: Andare e venire. Trafile migratorie . Viggiù 1999.
  • B. Messina: Raccolta di notizie, documenti ed impressioni sulla storia di San Fratello , S. Agata di Militello 2000
  • N. lo Castro: La Festa dei Giudei a San Fratello , San Fratello 1983

Web links

Commons : San Fratello  - 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. ^ Christian Hülsen : Apollonia 32 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, Col. 117.
  3. ↑ G. Scibona:  Apollonia, Sicily . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
  4. ↑ Diodor, Bibliothḗkē historikḗ 16.72.
  5. ^ Diodor, Bibliothḗkē historikḗ 20, 56.
  6. ^ Cicero , In Verrem Actio 3, 43, 103.
  7. ↑ Cicero, In Verrem Actio 5, 33, 86 and 5, 34, 90.