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Sperlinga It is an Italian town in the province of Enna, Sicily Region, with 897 inhabitants. [ 3 ]
It is located between the mountains of Nebrodi and Madonie, in the heart of the central sicily, 47 kilometers from Enna. Sperlinga etymologically derives from the Greek language and means “den” of the cave.
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Among the first historical documents of Sperlinga is a privilege of Count Roger of 1082. In the immediately successive period a strong colonization of the peoples that from northern Italy. For this reason, there is still spoken to this day in Sperlinga an Italian Gallo Dialect, the Galo-Sycilian, as in other parts of Sicily, due to the immigration of the provinces of Novara, Asti and Alessandria.
Gerhard Rohlfs conducted a search on the Galoitallic dialect of Sicily on April 13 and 14, 1924, contributing suggestive photos of the Cuevas de Vía Valle.
The city, originally a feudal village located at the foot of the medieval castle, was extended from 1597, when King Felipe II of Spain granted Juan Natoli, Prince of Sperlinga, the privilege to build in that land.
The region is characterized by its numerous caves excavated in the rock (sandstone).
They highlight those of the contraded network, Cicero, Perca, Vieja Cueva, and in the Town “jump” that Excavated in ranks, in front of the overlap with picturesque streets that form a city of rocks together, where, every year, on August 16, the “Tortone Festival is celebrated. This folk event is the distribution and tasting of local typical foods, The expression of the culinary traditions of the best and most genuine of the place.
The castle is a rare example of Roca Castillo, partly excavated in the rock, and probably from the era before the Greek pre-peer 1000.
It was the head of the Baronia de Ventimiglia until 1597, then the Prince Giovanni I Natoli de Sperlinga (1597-1658) and then the Duke Onet (1658-1861), the last of which long-term leases granted to Baron Nunzio Nicosia, whose descendants donated to the city of Sperlinga in 1973.
His registration in Latin is a famous recorded in the targeted arch, in the castle lobby “The Sicilians decided to be solely to sink” , this information is linked to the posthumous history of Sicilian eve (1282), where a French garrison was locked inside the castle and resisted the siege for almost a year.
The preponderant economic activity of the municipality has been the agricultural. Sperlinga has a notable production of wheat, olive, citrus, fodder and stands out for sheep raising.
Festivities [ To edit ]
Sperlinga celebrates his party in honor of John the Baptist on June 24.
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Tortone Festival (16 de August)
The festival is characterized because it takes place in the esplanade of the rock of the evocative castor of Sperlinga, considered among the best of its kind in Europe.
El Tortoni Nació EN 1982, during the seventh centenarium of La Vísperas Sicilian.
Essentially it is characterized by the elaboration of a homemade cake made with simple ingredients: flour and kneaded with yeast, olive oil and sprinkled sugar on the panels.
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