Demonym(s) Pazzanesi Local time Saturday 9:20 AM Patron saint Saint Joseph | Region Calabria Elevation 460 m (1,510 ft) Time zone CET (UTC+1) Postal code 89040 | |
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Weather 18°C, Wind SE at 6 km/h, 46% Humidity Province Province of Reggio Calabria |
Pazzano is a village and comune located in Locride's region in the province of Reggio Calabria (Calabria, southern Italy).
Contents
- Map of 89040 Pazzano Province of Reggio Calabria Italy
- History
- Main sights
- Notable people
- Economy
- Today
- Transportation
- Feast days
- Food
- References
Map of 89040 Pazzano Province of Reggio Calabria, Italy
History
The first known mention of Pazzano dates to a 1094 document. The town was founded as a minerary center for the exploitation of iron (by pyrite and limonite) and molybdenum (the latter in caves of Monte Stella and Monte Consolino) deposits. During the period of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, its 25 mines made Pazzano the most important mining centre in all of southern Italy. The minerals were processed at Reali ferriere ed Officine di Mongiana in Mongiana.
Pazzano became a comune in 1811. Minerary activities lasted until the 20th century. During the 1950s, the inhabitants began to emigrate to northern Italy, and Pazzano's population drastically reduced.
At Sydney,(Australia), since the 1950s the emigrants of Pazzano created a little Community in Brookvale (nicknamed Pazzaniedu) and at Narraweena, every year take place the Santo Salvatore's fiest.
There is also a little community at Aliquippa in Pennsylvania (USA).
By the 1980s the ecomuseum Ecomuseo delle ferriere e fonderie di Calabria (Ecomuseum of iron-foundry and foundry of Calabria) was to preserve and remember the industrial archaeology of the town.
Main sights
Notable people
Economy
In the past Pazzano has got an industrial activity related with Reali Ferriere di Mongiana, people who worked in the field in spring and summer period on winter worked in the iron mines. The subsistence agriculture produce olive oil, wine, grain, cheese, vegetables like eggplants, tomatoes, chicory, zucchini, beans and chickpeas, fruit like oranges, figs and pears. There was also limestone quarries, hydraulic mills and a homemade of dress production. The SS110 road has been paved for the first time in the 1950s by pazzano's entrepreneurs from Monasterace Marina to Serra San Bruno.
From the 1957 up to 1975 Pazzano was headquaurters of transport truck company Sabatino Salvatore & figli (after moved at Stilo). In the 1960s there were much more than 60 commercial activities among hairdressers, tailors, shoemakers, bar owners, drugstores... The 1960s was also the period when started southern emigration to Italian northern cities and year by year all the activities was closed.
Today
The economy of Pazzano now is largely based on agriculture: olive oil production, fruit harvesting and religious tourism. In the last years there are some attempts in Vallata dello Stilaro and Serre calabresi to increase natural tourism with the creation of the near Parco naturale regionale delle Serre (Serre's park) and archeological industrial tourism with the ecomuseum creation of Ecomuseo delle ferriere e fonderie di Calabria and the building Museo della cultura mineraria (mine culture museum) in Pazzano.
Transportation
Pazzano is located on the SS 110 state road, 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the coastal town of Monasterace Marina.
There is a bus service, Federico, that links Pazzano with Reggio Calabria and several other towns including Stilo, Caulonia, Gioiosa Ionica and Locri. The nearest railway station is Monasterace Marina (15 km).
Feast-days
Food
Pazzano's food is typical of Calabria, and includes: