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Trappeto
Country Flag of Italy Italy
Region Sicily
Province Province of Palermo (PA)
Mayor
Elevation 8 m
Area 4.1 km²
Population
 - Total (as of Dec. 2004) 2,936
 - Density 711/km²
Time zone CET, UTC+1
Coordinates 38°4′N 13°2′E
Gentilic
Dialing code 091
Postal code 90040

Location of Trappeto in Italy

Trappeto is a town in the Province of Palermo in the Italian region of Sicily, located about 30 km west of Palermo. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,936 and an area of 4.1 km2.[1] Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Palermo (It. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with ethnonym. ... Here are a list of area codes in Italy. ... Image File history File links Italy_Regions_220px_(including_Pelagie_Islands). ... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Palermo (It. ... Sicily (Sicilia in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... For other uses, see Palermo (disambiguation). ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Trappeto borders the following cities: Balestrate, Partinico, Terrasini. Country Italy Region Sicily Province Province of Palermo (PA) Mayor Elevation m Area 3. ... Partinico is a city and commune in Sicilia in Palermo Province. ... Piazza Duomo & Chiesa Madre Terrasini is a town in the Province of Palermo in Italys Sicily. ...


Demographic evolution


References

  1. ^ All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.


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TRAPPETO



Forty kilometres from Palermo, in the heart of the Gulf of Castellammare (Trapani), Trappeto is a corner of paradise immersed in a scenery of natural beauty, a fertile land of thriving greenery in the middle of a very suggestive historical itinerary, wet by the splendid colours of the sea. Set up in the forest called Parthenia by Federico II of Aragona during the XIV century, Trappeto has changed little by little into a territory rich in vineyards and citrus orchards that overlooks the sea, ploughed in the past by sailing ships loaded of sugar and wine and nowadays sailed by boats full of tourists and vacationers. The name " Trappetum Cannamelarum " was born together with the first factory (1480) that dealt with the extraction and the refining of sugar canes and a fortified tower like those that still exist in different styles built by the people such as Arabs, Normans, Christians, Moors etc. The first homes of the suburb were most of all fishermen homes, built around the Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation (1680).For centuries Trappeto was inhabited by farmers and fishermen that mingled together the sweetness of nature's products and the disappointments of a life of hardship and emigration in a Sicily oppressed by the Mafia. After World War II, Trappeto became a symbol of total poverty, touching the most sensitive hearts of Italy and Europe, thanks to Danilo Dolci's work and the running of the Centre for studies "Borgo di Dio " (1968), located on the promontory of the town, which diffused the cultural and humane treasures of these Sicilians. Since then, a wonderful revival that caused a rupture with the past began thanks to the same residents of Trappeto that were inspired by a renewed faith and an inexhaustible need for humanization and justice, towards a destiny of inexorable progress. Trappeto is nowadays a chosen destination by an enthusiast and loyal tourism that can find thousands of pleasant occasions to relax and social life in a town immersed in open spaces with many flower - beds and multicoloured fishermen homes decorated by murals.

 Translation by Matthew Joseph Bologna 


 
 

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