Vinchiaturo

Vinchiaturo
Country	Italy
region	Molise
province	Campobasso  (CB)
Coordinates	41 ° 30 '  N , 14 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 30 '0 "  N , 14 ° 35' 0"  E
height	620  m slm
surface	35.45 km²
Residents	3,319 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	94 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	86019
prefix	0874
ISTAT number	070084
Popular name	Vinchiaturesi
Patron saint	Saint Bernard of Siena (May 20)
Website	Vinchiaturo

Vinchiaturo is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 3319 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Campobasso in Molise . The municipality is located about 10 kilometers southwest of Campobasso .

history

After Italy entered the war in June 1940, the fascist regime established an internment camp ( campo di concentramento ) for women in Vinchiaturo . It was located in a private house in the center of the village, on via Libertà . Foreign women made up the largest group, as did foreign Jews and Yugoslav women from areas occupied or annexed by Italy. The house did not have a bathroom, the rooms could not be heated and were therefore cold. The forced cohabitation of very different women, the isolation and the boredom resulted in dejection and depression ; two suicide attempts have been proven.

traffic

Strada Statale 17 dell'Appennino Abruzzese e Appulo Sannitica from Antrodoco to Foggia and Strada Statale 87 Sannitica from Benevento to Termoli run through the municipality . The Vinchiaturo train station is on the Benevento – Campobasso line or on the Isernia to Campobasso line.

Web links

Commons : Vinchiaturo  - 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. ↑ Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, I Campi del duce. L'internamento civile nell'Italia fascista (1940-1943) , Torino 2004 (Einaudi), pp. 224-225; Klaus Voigt, Refuge on Revocation. Exile in Italy 1933-1945 (Volume 2), Stuttgart 1993 (Klett-Cotta), pp. 61-63