Volturara Appula

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Comune di Volturara Appula
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Volturara Appula
Volturara Appula (Apulia)
Coordinates: 41°30′N15°3′E / 41.500°N 15.050°E / 41.500; 15.050 Coordinates: 41°30′N15°3′E / 41.500°N 15.050°E / 41.500; 15.050
Country Italy
Region Apulia
Province Foggia (FG)
Government
  MayorVincenzo Zibisco
Area
[1]
  Total52 km2 (20 sq mi)
Elevation
489 m (1,604 ft)
Population
 (30 June 2022) [2]
  Total380
  Density7.3/km2 (19/sq mi)
Demonym Volturaresi
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
71030
Dialing code 0881
Patron saintSt. Luke
Saint day18 October
Website Official website

Volturara Appula is a town and comune in the province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. Once a flourishing city, the comune now has a population of less than 400. [3]

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History

The date of his foundation is not known; the first historical paper citing it, is a document of Pope Giovanni (John) XIII that, in 969 A.D., lists Volturara as a bishopric, depending from Benevento. Vulturaria, as it was previously called, was ruled in various times by its bishops, and by a number of noble families, including a branch of Caracciolos that built the so said 'Dukedom Palace'. [4]

Main sights

The Apulian Romanesque cathedral was built in the 13th century. It has a massive bell-tower with three bells of bronze with a noteworthy percentage of silver. Another church, the 16th-century Santuario di Maria SS. della Sanità (Shrine of Our Lady of Health) was reputedly built by Marquis Bartolomeo Caracciolo in thanksgiving for recovery from illness. [4]

Bishopric

Its bishopric, the Diocese of Vulturara, was united with that of Diocese of Montecorvino to form the Diocese of Vulturara e Montecorvino in 1433. [5] Giuseppe Cappelletti gives detailed information about most of its bishops. [5] In 1818, upon a reorganization of the dioceses within the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, [6] the diocese ceased to exist as a residential see and its territory became part of the diocese of Lucera. [5] It is now included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. [7]

People

Giuseppe Conte, the Prime Minister of Italy in 2018-2021 was born in Volturara, but grew up in San Giovanni Rotondo.

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References

  1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)
  3. Comune di Volturara Appula
  4. 1 2 Official website of Volturara Appula
  5. 1 2 3 Giuseppe Cappelletti, Le Chiese d'Italia dalla loro origine sino ai nostri giorni, Venezia 1864, vol. XIX, pp. 293-303
  6. Bull De utiliori, in Bullarii romani continuatio, Tomus XV, Romae 1853, pp. 56-61
  7. Ánnuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN   978-88-209-9070-1), p. 1010