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Avezzano
Avezzano ( ; ) is a city and comune in the Abruzzo region, province of L'Aquila, Italy. It is the second most populous municipality in the province and the sixth in the region. It is the main commercial, industrial and agricultural centre of the Marsica area, with important high-tech industries and the Fucino Space Centre. The city was destroyed by the 1915 Avezzano earthquake, earthquake of 1915. It was rebuilt after the 1944 Allied bombing. The city was decorated with the silver medal for civil merit, an award granted by the Italian Republic. History Toponymy There are different common etymologies for the name of the city: from "Avidianum" or "fundus Avidianus" which is derived from the noble Avidius ("Avidia gens") domiciled in the nearby ancient town of Alba Fucens; from "Ad Vettianum" which means a "to the Vettia family" ("List of Roman gentes, Vettia gens") or for an unlikely hypothesis from "Ave Jane", an invocation to the Roman god Janus (mythology), Janus. Earliest his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madonna Di Pietraquaria
Madonna di Pietraquaria ( Italian for Madonna of Pietraquaria) is one of the titles by which the Holy Virgin Mary is venerated as the Patroness of the city of Avezzano, in Abruzzo, Italy. On 1 January 1978, ''Maria Santissima di Pietraquaria'' ("Most Holy Mary of Pietraquaria") was proclaimed the patroness saint of the city of Avezzano. The Virgin Mary is celebrated with events and religious rites between 25 and 27 April. Pope Gregory XVI granted a canonical coronation towards the venerated image on 16 September 1838. History Origins The cult is related to the presence of the medieval town of Pietra Aquaria (literally "water stone") on the top of Mount Salviano since the 10th century. Here, as attested by Pope Clement III's 12th century bull, there were three small religious buildings: Saint Peter, Saint John and Saint Mary. In this church a painting depicting the Virgin with Child was located. In Middle Ages Pietraquaria was an important independent fief of the Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Avezzano Earthquake
The 1915 Avezzano earthquake or 1915 Fucino earthquake occurred on 13 January in central Italy at . The shock had a moment magnitude of 6.7 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). The epicenter was located in the city of Avezzano (which was destroyed) in the Province of L'Aquila. Around 30,000 direct fatalities and $60 million in damage resulted from the earthquake. Tectonic setting The central Apennines of Italy are dominated by extensional tectonics as a result of either roll-back associated with continuing subduction of the Adriatic plate or northeastward movement of the Adriatic plate relative to the Eurasian plate. The epicentral area of the earthquake lies within the Fucino Basin, an area of active rifting with a Pliocene to recent fill of greater than 1 km of fluvial to lacustrine sediments. Since the Late Pliocene the subsidence has controlled by a set of NW-SE trending, SW- dipping normal faults, including the Marsican Hwy Fault (MHF) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of L'Aquila
The province of L'Aquila () is the largest, most mountainous and least densely populated Provinces of Italy, province of the Abruzzo region of Italy. It comprises about half the landmass of Abruzzo and occupies the western part of the region. It has borders with the provinces of Province of Teramo, Teramo to the north, Province of Pescara, Pescara and Province of Chieti, Chieti to the east, Province of Isernia, Isernia (in Molise region) to the south and Province of Frosinone, Frosinone, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Rome and Province of Rieti, Rieti (in Lazio region) to the west. Its capital is the city of L'Aquila. The province of L'Aquila includes the highest mountains of the Apennines (Gran Sasso d'Italia, Gran Sasso, Maiella and Velino-Sirente), their highest peak, Corno Grande, the high plain of Campo Imperatore, and Europe's southernmost glacier, the Calderone glacier, Calderone. The province's major rivers are the Aterno-Pescara, Sangro, Liri, Salto, and the Turano; i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunnels Of Claudius
The Tunnels of Claudius () consist principally of a 6 km-long tunnel (or ''emissary'') together with several monumental service tunnels which Ancient Rome, Roman Emperor Claudius had built by 52 AD to partially drain the Fucine Lake in Abruzzo, protecting riparian villages from floods and creating agricultural land. It was a massive engineering project involving 30,000 workmen and slaves who completed it in just 11 years, and considered among the grandest in antiquity. It was the longest tunnel ever built until the inauguration of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel in 1871. The lake water flowed under Mount Salviano and emptied into the Liri, Liri River beneath the present town of Capistrello. Without regular maintenance the emissary often became clogged, and the lake returned to its original size with regular flooding. It was only in 1854 when Alessandro Torlonia, 2nd Prince of Civitella-Cesi, Alessandro Torlonia renovated the tunnels mostly following the Roman ones that knowledge of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abruzzo
Abruzzo (, ; ; , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; ), historically also known as Abruzzi, is a Regions of Italy, region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million. It is divided into four Provinces of Italy, provinces: Province of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Province of Teramo, Teramo, Province of Pescara, Pescara, and Province of Chieti, Chieti. Its western border lies east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and northwest, Molise to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. Geographically, Abruzzo is divided into a mountainous area in the west, which includes the highest massifs of the Apennines, such as the Gran Sasso d'Italia and the Maiella, and a coastal area in the east with beaches on the Adriatic Sea. Abruzzo is considered a region of Southern Italy in terms of its culture, language, economy, and history, though in terms of physical geography, it is often considered part of Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsica
Marsica is a geographical and historical region in Abruzzo, central Italy, including 37 ''comuni'' in the province of L'Aquila. It is located between the plain of the former Fucine Lake, the Parco Nazionale d'Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise, National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise, the plain of Carsoli and the valley of Sulmona. The area takes its name from the Marsi, an Osco-Umbrian Italic people, and then from the Latin adjective ''marsicus''. In the center of the area there is the Fucino former lake, dried up in 1877, surrounded by parks and nature reserves. Avezzano is the most populous city of the territory. Marsica has about 130,000 inhabitants as of 2019. ''Comuni'' The Marsica includes 37 ''comuni'': Aielli, Avezzano, Balsorano, Bisegna, Canistro, Capistrello, Cappadocia (AQ), Cappadocia, Carsoli, Castellafiume, Celano, Cerchio (AQ), Cerchio, Civitella Roveto, Civita d'Antino, Collarmele, Collelongo, Gioia dei Marsi, Lecce nei Marsi, Luco dei Marsi, Magliano de' Marsi, Massa d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Salviano
() is a massif in the Abruzzo Apennines, Central Italy. It includes the peaks of Monte d'Aria (), Monte Cimarani () and Monte San Felice (). Since 1999 the area, falling within the municipal territory of Avezzano (Province of L'Aquila), has been included in the Riserva Naturale di Monte Salviano. Description The Salviano mountain range is situated along the watershed between the Fucino basin and the Piani Palentini, in Marsica. In 1993 a serious fire burnt down dozens of hectares of black pine in the pinewood planted by the prisoners of Avezzano concentration camp in 1916. Ecological restoration, carried out through the reforestation of native and indigenous species, favoured the process of spontaneous regeneration consolidating the mountain area ecosystem. Since 1999, the Avezzano side entirely falls into the Riserva Naturale di Monte Salviano, a former peri-urban park. In 2005 Monte Salviano was indicated among Abruzzo sites of community importance. Etymology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fucino Space Centre
The Fucino Space Centre is the largest teleport in the world for civilian uses used for the control of artificial satellites, for telecommunications and for Web hosting service, hosting, television and network services multimedia. Located in the Fucino plain in Abruzzo within the municipal area of Ortucchio, near Avezzano (Province of L'Aquila, AQ), central-east Italy, it is named after the engineer Piero Fanti, first director of Telespazio, and managed by the same company consisting of two joint ventures, the Italian Leonardo S.p.A., Leonardo (Finmeccanica) for 67% and the French Thales Group, Thales for the remaining 33%. History The beginning of the history of Telespazio S.p.A. coincides with the signing of the memorandum of understanding between the company and NASA which took place in January 1962 and made it possible to participate and develop projects relating to the Telstar 1 and Relay program, Relay satellites. With the granting of the exclusive license by the Minis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castelnuovo, Avezzano
The frazione Castelnuovo is a small town established in the Middle Ages in the Avezzano comune, 8 kilometers from Avezzano itself, within the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region, in the Apennine Mountains within the centre (geometry) of Italy. Its population Population is a set of humans or other organisms in a given region or area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the resident population size within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and pl ... in 2001 was 182. 2001 census, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Pelino
The ''frazione'' San Pelino is a medieval town in the Avezzano ''comune''. It lies within the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo region, in the Apennine Mountain Range of central Italy Central Italy ( or ) is one of the five official statistical regions of Italy used by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), a first-level NUTS region with code ITI, and a European Parliament constituency. It has 11,704,312 inhabita .... The population is about 1,800. Frazioni of Avezzano {{Abruzzo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cese Dei Marsi
Cese dei Marsi ( Marsicano: ') is a frazione of the Avezzano comune, in the Marsica subregion (Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...). Frazioni of Avezzano {{Abruzzo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alba Fucens
Alba Fucens was an ancient Italic people, Italic town located at elevation at the base of Monte Velino, approximately north of Avezzano, Abruzzo, central Italy. Its ruins can be found in the ''comune'' of Massa d'Albe. The city is largely visible after excavation and is probably the most important ancient site in Abruzzo. History It was originally a town of the Aequi, though on the frontier of the Marsi, but was occupied by a Latin colony (303-4 BC) owing to its strategic importance. Initially it was populated by 6,000 settlers who built a wall in the years immediately following their settlement. The following year they had to defend themselves from the attacks of the Aequi who, unable to tolerate the presence of a fortified Latin citadel on their territory, tried to conquer it without success. It lay on a hill just to the north of the Via Valeria, which was prolonged beyond Tibur probably at this very period. In the Second Punic War Alba at first remained faithful and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
