Vezzani
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| region | Corsica | |
| Department | Upper Corsica | |
| Arrondissement | Corte | |
| Canton | Fiumorbo Castello | |
| Community association | Communauté de communes de Fium'Orbu Castellu | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 10 ′ N , 9 ° 15 ′ E | |
| height | 83-1,532 m | |
| surface | 46.32 km 2 | |
| Residents | 265 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 6 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 20242 | |
| INSEE code | 2B347 | |
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Vezzani is a municipality with 265 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haute-Corse department on the French island of Corsica . It is the partner community of San Ignacio De Sabaneta in the Santiago Rodríguez Province of the Dominican Republic .
geography
Vezzani is located at an altitude of 765 meters above sea level above the Tagnone valley in the Rospa-Sorba forest, 50 kilometers northeast of Ajaccio , the capital of the Corsica region. The village is surrounded by the neighboring parishes of Pietroso , Rospigliani and Muracciole . The municipality has an area of 46.32 square kilometers. The Tagnone is a tributary of the Tavignano with a length of 35.3 kilometers and has its source in Vezzani.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2016 |
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| Residents | 408 | 451 | 408 | 412 | 336 | 300 | 323 | 281 |
Culture and sights
On 9 and 10 August of each year the Festival du bois et de la Forêt instead (, the wood and the forest '). A tourist train runs between Vezzani and the forest. Craftsmen and artists from all over Corsica exhibit wood-themed works.
A museum has been set up in the former lavoir of Vezzani where ancient tools are exhibited.
The fountain of the Three Graces was made of cast iron in 1867 by the art foundry Jean-Jacques Ducel . The motif of the three graces represents “marital fidelity in ancient Rome”. The fountain was designed after a work by the sculptor Germain Pilon (1535–1590), which has been in the Louvre since 1817 .
The Église de l'Annonciation (' Church of the Annunciation ') had the status of a pieve in 1589 . At that time it was still a Romanesque style building , today it is a classicist building, even if the facade still shows some baroque elements.
economy
The copper mining in Vezzani was partly on the territory of the neighboring communities of Noceta , Pietroso and Rospigliani . In 1795 an engineer found an arsenopyrite vein in Vezzani. It was not until 1857 that the first permission to examine the site was given. In 1891 another permit for excavations was granted, and the work was carried out in 1892. In 1895, the explorers sold their rights to a bank in Bastia . In 1897 the mining company mines de Tama-Vezzani was founded. The mining rights covered an area of 1842 hectares. In 1898 over 300 tons of arsenopyrite were mined and shipped to England . With the outbreak of the First World War (1914-1918), the dismantling was stopped. In 1925, work resumed for about a year, after which the mine was abandoned. A total of 5500 tons of ore were mined, 4000 tons were exported to England. The concession was canceled in 1965.
An important line of business in Vezzani is forestry , the sale of pine seeds and wood.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ a b Le village de Vezzani. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved October 4, 2011 (French).
- ↑ a b c d Vezzani. (No longer available online.) In: corsica-costaserena.com. Pôle touristique Costa Serena, archived from the original on October 18, 2011 ; Retrieved October 10, 2011 (French). 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.
- ↑ The district of Vezzani. (No longer available online.) In: CorseWeb. InternetCom, archived from the original on November 17, 2008 ; Retrieved October 4, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ a b c Entry No. 2B347 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Photo of the original by Germain Pilon on Wikimedia Commons
