Tusa

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Tusa
Country	Italy
region	Sicily
Metropolitan city	Messina  (ME)
Local name	Tusa
Coordinates	37 ° 59 '  N , 14 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 37 ° 59 '0 "  N , 14 ° 14' 0"  E
height	614  m slm
surface	40 km²
Residents	2,718 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	68 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	98079
prefix	0921
ISTAT number	083101
Popular name	Tusani
Patron saint	Maria SS. Assunta (August 15)
Website	Tusa

Panorama of Tusa

Castello of the Castel di Tusa district

Tusa is a city in the metropolitan city of Messina in the Sicily region in Italy with 2718 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

Location and dates

Tusa is 166 km west of Messina and 95 km east of Palermo . The residents mainly work in agriculture. The Tusa motorway junction is on the A20 .

The districts include Castel di Tusa and Milianni. The neighboring municipalities are Motta d'Affermo , Pettineo and San Mauro Castelverde ( PA ).

history

In the area of ​​Tusa, just below the city to the north, are the ruins of the ancient place Halaesa . Halaesa was founded in 403 BC. Founded. After the Roman period , the place was the seat of a diocese. The settlement of Ort was destroyed in Arab times . The population fled to an already existing, higher-lying settlement, which today forms the city center and was fortified by city walls. During the time of Norman rule, the place was converted into a rocca with towers. Thereafter the Tusa was ruled by the Ventimiglia family from Ventimiglia di Sicilia . In the 20th century the community suffered from severe emigration . While Tusa still had around 7,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the century, today it is less than half.

Attractions

• Medieval city center
• The ruins of the ancient city of Halaesa
• Chiesa Matrice , church from the 16th century.
• Chiesa di San Giorgio , already in 1454 mentioned church with adjoining convent of the Benedictine .
• Chiesa di San Leonardo , 1572 resulting church Capuchin - Convention . Contains the work Santa Maria degli Angeli e sant by Durante Alberti (1580).
• Chiesa di San Nicola di Bari , church from the 15th century.
• Chiesa di San Pietro , church, built around 1555.
• Chiesa di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria , 16th century church just outside the city walls in the Borgo district . Was damaged in the 1693 earthquake and restored in 1718. The earthquakes of 1908 and 1968 left further damage which was later repaired.
• Chiesa di Santa Lucia e Convento dei padri agostiniani del Santissimo Salvatore , church and convent, both founded in 1530.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Tusa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Website of the Comune Tusa, accessed on September 19, 2010 ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.