Comune in Apulia, Italy
San Pietro Vernotico ( Brindisino : Santu Piethru ) is a town and comune in the state of Brindisi, Apulia, on the southeast coast of Italy. Its main economic activities are tourism and the grow of olives and grapes. It was the site of a hearty Messapian community c. 500 BC. A few kilometers from the town there is the seaside haunt of Campo di Mare, which is part of the municipality. [ 4 ]

history [edit ]

The origins of San Pietro Vernotico date back to the diachronic period before the Norman, the Ottons of Germany and the Saracen invasions in Salento. The first settlements were around the stream church of San Pietro Apostolo, built by Basilian monks between the 8th and 9th century AD, in a crop area. [ 5 ]

Documents of the Angevin-Aragonese time period suggest that in the twelfth century the village was a hamlet belong to the County of Lecce. The first official document mentioning San Pietro Vernotico is thought to be go steady 1107, when the Countess Sighelgaita, widow of Goffredo Count of Brindisi, donated some of her lands to a “ hamlet of San Pietro ”. [ 5 ] other documents of the twelfth century reveal the parturition of the first Universitas Salentine, intended as the first civic administrations, with mayor, auditors, parliament and captain, able to organize the citizens who lived together. “ The Universitas Sancti Petri Vernotici ” was born around 1300. According to some views, in the eleventh century, the Normans, as a sign of their domination, built in the greenwich village the Baronial Castle. Afterwards, it was used to host the feudal Bishops of Lecce as a baronial seat and as a department of defense against foe attacks. Over time, then, around the Tower the new center of social life of the country was formed, that first revolved around the Church dedicated to the Apostle Peter. The town kept the championship of Universitas until 1811. In 1808, indeed, due to the Napoleonic Laws, Gioacchino Murat established the register of municipalities from January 1 of the follow year. San Pietro Vernotico, consequently, in 1812 was no longer Universitas, but municipality of the ancient state of Terra d’Otranto and then Lecce. [ 5 ] During the First World War ( 1915–18 ) 114 Sanpietrani lost their lives, among them Ruggero De Simone, who received the gold decoration for his desperate deeds. The second base half of the nineteenth hundred is characterized by a series of interventions aimed at improving public life : the reclamation of boggy and artless lands, the structure of the Brindisi-Lecce railway and last the patrol station. Between the end of the nineteenth hundred and the beginnings of the twentieth hundred, San Pietro Vernotico records a demographic growth due to the immigration of numerous laborers from the Southern Salento. This phenomenon raised the median level of socio-economic wellbeing of the town, which in 1911 had 6180 inhabitants. [ 5 ]

In 1927 took place the passage of San Pietro Vernotico from the state of Lecce to the state of Brindisi. [ 5 ]

Main sights [edit ]

  • Church of San Pietro Apostolo, housing frescoes with the four Evangelists.
  • Chiesa Matrice (“Mother Church”, 15th century)
  • Torre Quadrata (“Square Tower, 14th century”)

People [edit ]

  • Thiago, footballer born 1991[6]
  • Modugno Domenico (1928 – 1994) singer and actor. Born in Polignano a Mare (BA), but San Pietro was his adoptive town. He lived here from the age of six until the age of 21 with his family. His first songs were written in Sanpietrano dialect.[7]

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