Piano Vetrale

Piano Vetrale
Piano Vetrale
	Frazione
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	Piano Vetrale Location of Piano Vetrale in Italy
	Coordinates: 40°18′15.9″N15°12′04.1″E / 40.304417°N 15.201139°E Coordinates: 40°18′15.9″N15°12′04.1″E / 40.304417°N 15.201139°E
Country	Italy
Region	Campania
Province	Salerno (SA)
Comune	Orria
Elevation	575 m (1,886 ft)
Population (2011) [1]
• Total	475
Demonym(s)	Pianesi / Vetralesi
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	84060
Dialing code	(+39) 0974
Patron saint	St. Elias [2]
Saint day	Last sunday of July [2]

Last updated May 02, 2019

Piano Vetrale,^[3] also shortened as Vetrale or Piano, is a southern Italian village and hamlet ( frazione ) of Orria, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2011, its population was of 475.^[1]

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a European country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Italian Alps and surrounded by several islands. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean sea and traversed along its length by the Apennines, Italy has a largely temperate seasonal climate. The country covers an area of 301,340 km² (116,350 sq mi) and shares open land borders with France, Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland and the enclaved microstates of Vatican City and San Marino. Italy has a territorial exclave in Switzerland (Campione) and a maritime exclave in the Tunisian sea (Lampedusa). With around 60 million inhabitants, Italy is the fourth-most populous member state of the European Union.

"Frazione" is the Italian name given in administrative law to a type of territorial subdivision of a comune; for other administrative divisions, see municipio, circoscrizione, quartiere. It is cognate to the English word fraction, but in practice is roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other countries.

Orria is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of South-western Italy. As of 2011 its population was of 1,161.

History

The origin of the toponym comes from Planus (referred to the high plain in which it lies) and Veteres (referred to its founders, some veterans of the Roman army from Gioi). The village, originally named Piano del Cilento, is part of the municipality of Orria since 1801 and was divided into two separated settlements (Piano and Vetrale) until the 1960s.^[2] Piano Vetrale became a "painted town" with large murales outside the houses, at the end of the 1970s, following the idea of the Sicilian artist Pino Crisanti.^[4]^[3]

In geology and physical geography, a plateau, also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain, that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes. Plateaus can be formed by a number of processes, including upwelling of volcanic magma, extrusion of lava, and erosion by water and glaciers. Plateaus are classified according to their surrounding environment as intermontane, piedmont, or continental.

The Roman army was the terrestrial armed forces deployed by the Romans throughout the duration of Ancient Rome, from the Roman Kingdom to the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and its medieval continuation the Eastern Roman Empire. It is thus a term that may span approximately 2,206 years, during which the Roman armed forces underwent numerous permutations in composition, organisation, equipment and tactics, while conserving a core of lasting traditions..

Gioi is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. As of 2011 its population was of 1,339.

Geography

Located in the middle of Cilento and transcluded into its national park, Piano Vetrale is a hill village that spans on a ridge upon the valley of Alento river's source. It is divided into the quarters of Piano (west) and Vetrale (east), contiguous and divided by a little valley, named Vallone di Sabato.^[2]

Cilento is an Italian geographical region of Campania in the central and southern part of the Province of Salerno and an important tourist area of southern Italy.

A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geological feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for some distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from narrow top on either side.The line along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, is called the ridgeline. Ridges are usually termed hills or mountains as well, depending on size.

The Alento is a river in southwestern Italy. Originating from Le Corne mountain, nearby the village of Gorga, it flows in the Campanian territory of Cilento, in the Province of Salerno. Its mouth is on the Tyrrhenian Sea, close to the Ancient Greek town of Velia, at the borders between the municipalities of Casal Velino and Ascea.

Piano Vetrale lies between Orria (3.5 km west), Gioi (4 km southeast) and Stio (6.5 km east), and is connected to them by the provincial road SP56/B.^[5] The village is 7.3 km far from Perito, 7.7 from Ostigliano, 8 from Gorga, 9 from Cardile, 10 from Casino Lebano (the other hamlet of Orria), and 17 from Vallo della Lucania.

Stio is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. As of 2016, its population was 872.

Perito is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. As of 2011 its population was of 1,007.

Ostigliano is a southern Italian village and the only hamlet (frazione) of Perito, a municipality in the province of Salerno, Campania. As of 2011, its population was 431.

Main sights

St. Sophia's Church and its bell tower^[3]
The murales within the village^[3]^[4]

Personalities

Paolo de Matteis (1662-1728), painter^[4]

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References

1 2 (in Italian) Info on italia.indettaglio.it
1 2 3 4 (in Italian) "Bright Colors and Archaic Symbols in the Murals of Piano Vetrale". la Città , 22-2-2013
1 2 3 4 (in Italian) Territory and history of Orria (municipal website)
1 2 3 (in Italian) The murales of Piano Vetrale (Orria municipal website)
↑ 1175393963 Piano Vetrale on OpenStreetMap

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[itind-1] 1 2 (in Italian) Info on italia.indettaglio.it

[lacitta-2] 1 2 3 4 (in Italian) "Bright Colors and Archaic Symbols in the Murals of Piano Vetrale". la Città , 22-2-2013

[orriahistory-3] 1 2 3 4 (in Italian) Territory and history of Orria (municipal website)

[murales-4] 1 2 3 (in Italian) The murales of Piano Vetrale (Orria municipal website)

[5] 1175393963 Piano Vetrale on OpenStreetMap