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Avetrana
Address: Via Vittorio Emanuele, 19Website: www.comune.avetrana.ta.it
Post Code: 74020
Dialing code: 099
Population: 7.069 (31-12-2010)
Its territory has been inhabited since the Stone Age, as a matter of fact on the “Tarantina” main road, in a place called “Masseria della Marina” on the southern side of the farmhouse, traces of a prehistoric village with huts of the IV millennia B.C. have come to life. Another Neolithic place are the caves of the San Martino Channel of which archaeological finds are kept in the National Museum of Taranto. Important finds of the XIX century, which consist of Bronze Age weapons, have also been discovered in an area called “Strazzati-Sinfarosa” on the northern side of the town. Near the most ancient lay-out of the Traiana Road (also known as Salentina Road), in the San Francesco area, remains of a rustic roman villa have been found. Numerous were also the rural houses, small Messapian then Roman and Medieval settlements abandoned after Saracen raids.
Today the town rises on the second lay-out (Late Empire) of the major road artery that in the Messapian age first and later in the Roman age connected the cities of Taranto, Manduria, Nardò, Leuca and Otranto: the “Messapian-Traiana Road” or , as some historians call it, “Salentina Road”. A Roman Age trace, perhaps of the first century, is the “roman channel” (“brother” of the same-named channel located in Manduria). I
t is about 2 km long, 3m wide and about 2m deep and goes straight from north to south; it is located on the eastern side of the town and it was used to make the rainwater flow into the natural channel of San Martino. The northern side of it has now almost completely disappeared because of the quarries used for extracting tufa stones, whereas the southern side of it can still be seen despite the fact that is covered with crashed stones. The channel also crosses the main road to Nardò and there is named “Ponte Rescio”, after a Masseria close to it. With the name of “Vetrana” it was property of several families during the feudal tyranny. In 1481 it was inherited by the Pagano Seigniory and given as a dowry to Colella or Ippolita, Francesco Montefuscoli’s daughter and Galetto Pagano’s wife. Under the Pagano started the building of the new mother-church and town-walls of which only a few remains are still visible. During the Pagano Seigniory this land witnessed some clashes: at the San Giuliano rural house (very likely the today’s “Masseria San Paolo”) Charles V’s imperial troops were defeated by a French contingent. In 1547 Turkish pirates landed in Torre Columena. In 1587 Avetrana was sold by Carlo Pagano to Antonio Albrizi, who became Lord of Avetrana.
In 1644 the castle was owned by Bishop Geronimo di Martino and in 1656 became property of the Romano family and then property of Michele Imperiale, Marquis of Oria and Prince of Francavilla. It is not to be excluded that at first the Romano family might have been the Imperiali family’s constables and afterwards, through direct acquisition, they became Lords of Avetrana. In 1782, after the extinction of the Imperiali family, Avetrana became property of the Royal Revenue and was then sold to Massenzio Filo. It was owned by the Filo family until the abolition of feudalism in 1806. Until the beginning of 1900 the family still owned several properties, the castle was one of them, they were then given to the family’s administrator and subdivided into different lots. In 1929 a peasants’ revolt was very harshly put down by the fascist regime.
At the beginning of the 80s in Avetrana there were antinuclear movement demonstrations against the willingness of the Regional and National Governments to install a nuclear power plant on its territory. The Authorities willingness was stopped by a popular referendum that formally abolished the usage of nuclear technology for the production of electricity in Italy
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Today the town rises on the second lay-out (Late Empire) of the major road artery that in the Messapian age first and later in the Roman age connected the cities of Taranto, Manduria, Nardò, Leuca and Otranto: the “Messapian-Traiana Road” or , as some historians call it, “Salentina Road”. A Roman Age trace, perhaps of the first century, is the “roman channel” (“brother” of the same-named channel located in Manduria). I
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In 1644 the castle was owned by Bishop Geronimo di Martino and in 1656 became property of the Romano family and then property of Michele Imperiale, Marquis of Oria and Prince of Francavilla. It is not to be excluded that at first the Romano family might have been the Imperiali family’s constables and afterwards, through direct acquisition, they became Lords of Avetrana. In 1782, after the extinction of the Imperiali family, Avetrana became property of the Royal Revenue and was then sold to Massenzio Filo. It was owned by the Filo family until the abolition of feudalism in 1806. Until the beginning of 1900 the family still owned several properties, the castle was one of them, they were then given to the family’s administrator and subdivided into different lots. In 1929 a peasants’ revolt was very harshly put down by the fascist regime.
At the beginning of the 80s in Avetrana there were antinuclear movement demonstrations against the willingness of the Regional and National Governments to install a nuclear power plant on its territory. The Authorities willingness was stopped by a popular referendum that formally abolished the usage of nuclear technology for the production of electricity in Italy
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Today the town rises on the second lay-out (Late Empire) of the major road artery that in the Messapian age first and later in the Roman age connected the cities of Taranto, Manduria, Nardò, Leuca and Otranto: the “Messapian-Traiana Road” or , as some historians call it, “Salentina Road”. A Roman Age trace, perhaps of the first century, is the “roman channel” (“brother” of the same-named channel located in Manduria). I
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In 1644 the castle was owned by Bishop Geronimo di Martino and in 1656 became property of the Romano family and then property of Michele Imperiale, Marquis of Oria and Prince of Francavilla. It is not to be excluded that at first the Romano family might have been the Imperiali family’s constables and afterwards, through direct acquisition, they became Lords of Avetrana. In 1782, after the extinction of the Imperiali family, Avetrana became property of the Royal Revenue and was then sold to Massenzio Filo. It was owned by the Filo family until the abolition of feudalism in 1806. Until the beginning of 1900 the family still owned several properties, the castle was one of them, they were then given to the family’s administrator and subdivided into different lots. In 1929 a peasants’ revolt was very harshly put down by the fascist regime.
At the beginning of the 80s in Avetrana there were antinuclear movement demonstrations against the willingness of the Regional and National Governments to install a nuclear power plant on its territory. The Authorities willingness was stopped by a popular referendum that formally abolished the usage of nuclear technology for the production of electricity in Italy
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Today the town rises on the second lay-out (Late Empire) of the major road artery that in the Messapian age first and later in the Roman age connected the cities of Taranto, Manduria, Nardò, Leuca and Otranto: the “Messapian-Traiana Road” or , as some historians call it, “Salentina Road”. A Roman Age trace, perhaps of the first century, is the “roman channel” (“brother” of the same-named channel located in Manduria). I
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In 1644 the castle was owned by Bishop Geronimo di Martino and in 1656 became property of the Romano family and then property of Michele Imperiale, Marquis of Oria and Prince of Francavilla. It is not to be excluded that at first the Romano family might have been the Imperiali family’s constables and afterwards, through direct acquisition, they became Lords of Avetrana. In 1782, after the extinction of the Imperiali family, Avetrana became property of the Royal Revenue and was then sold to Massenzio Filo. It was owned by the Filo family until the abolition of feudalism in 1806. Until the beginning of 1900 the family still owned several properties, the castle was one of them, they were then given to the family’s administrator and subdivided into different lots. In 1929 a peasants’ revolt was very harshly put down by the fascist regime.
At the beginning of the 80s in Avetrana there were antinuclear movement demonstrations against the willingness of the Regional and National Governments to install a nuclear power plant on its territory. The Authorities willingness was stopped by a popular referendum that formally abolished the usage of nuclear technology for the production of electricity in Italy
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