SAN
PIETRO CLARENZA
San
Pietro Clarenza is a city of about 5,000 located 463 m a.s.l. It
has a mainly agricultural economy, with outstanding outputs of oil,
wine, citrus fruits, grapes, prickly-pears. It is also renowned
for its embroidery.
HISTORY
Its
names respectively derive from area’s people’s cult
of St. Peter and from the Clarenza family. It was one of the Hamlets
of Catania, successively ruled by Lord Giovanni Andrea Massa, Antonio
Reitano, who became Prince in 1648, the Pietrasanta family and,
in the 18th century, by the Paternòs Princes of Biscari.
Like many other towns in the Eastern Sicily, it was subject to two
great catastrophes, namely the 1669 eruption and the 1693 earthquake,
that highly ravaged it. The town was soon rebuilt and named San
Pietro; the name Clarenza would be added in 1779 when it was bought
by the noble Giuseppe Marino Clarenza.
THE
CITY
Several
late-Baroque noble palazzi in town are worth-visiting. San Pietro
Clarenza has been hometown of the Comes, the family of naturalist
Salvatore (1880-1954), Professor of Zoology at the Palermo University,
and the writer Salvatore (1912-1973) who was Direttore Generale
dell’Istruzione Universitaria (General Director of the Universitary
Education) in Italy and author of critique works on Ada Negri, Enrico
Onufrio and “Letteratura Garibaldina”.
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Catania
Aci Bonaccorsi
Aci Castello
Aci Catena
Acireale
Aci Sant'antonio
Aci Trezza
Adrano
Belpasso
Biancavilla
Bronte
Calatabiano
Caltagirone
Camporotondo Etneo
Castel Di Judica
Castiglione Di Sicilia
Fiumefreddo Di Sicilia
Giarre
Grammichele
Gravina Di Catania
Licodia Eubea
Linguaglossa
Maletto
Maniace
Mascali
Mascalucia
Mazzarrone
Militello Val Di Catania
Milo
Mineo
Mirabella Imbaccari
Misterbianco
Motta Santa Anastasia
Nicolosi
Palagonia
Paternò
Pedara
Piedimonte Etneo
Raddusa
Ragalna
Ramacca
Randazzo
Riposto
San Cono
San Giovanni La Punta
San Gregorio
San Michele Di Ganzaria
San Pietro Clarenza
Sant'agata Li Battiati
Sant'alfio
Santa Maria Di Licodia
Santa Venerina
Scordia
Trecastagni
Tremestieri Etneo
Valverde
Viagrande
Vizzini
Zafferana Etnea
Il
Vulcano Etna
Aci San Filippo
Aci Platani
Monterosso
Santa Maria La Scala
Santa Tecla
Stazzo
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