San Mango d'Aquino - Italy

San Mango d'Aquino (CZ)

Calabria (Italy)

San Mango d'Aquino rises about 500 meters high above sea level and is bordered by Martirano Lombardo, Nocera Terinese and Cleto. The highest peaks are the Raven (1118 m.), the Servino (d. 959), vitriol (d. 668) and Costanzo (d. 621). The streams, more than Savuto - that for a stretch forms the border between the provinces of Catanzaro and Cosenza - are the Casale (also called Garica or Gavice) Jury and the river, north, which delineates the border with martyrdom.
The place where it stands today, San Mango is located within an area of great importance from historical and archaeological point of view, where, in ancient times, have experienced different races of men, the territory is crossed by an important Roman road (Popilia / years), and the stretch of road on San Mango is remembered by the elders as the "Way of Carruggiu."
For many centuries the territory has been attached to certain lands of today's province of Cosenza, united under a single dependence: a commendation religion. And "ground of an ancient Commenda" is defined the territory of Savuto (and thus also that of San Mango) in a document dated 1829. During the Middle Ages the territory affected the domain of various feudal lords and in 1591 it was bought by Charles d'Aquino, a member of one of the most distinguished Italian noble families, sandwiched between the seven great houses of the Kingdom of Naples.
E 'in this period that the lands of Casale di San Mango began to be filled and a few years after Thomas Aquinas began to exploit the territory. Chapters are granted in 1646 (which regulate the relations between the inhabitants and the feudal lord), in 1648 the bishop of Tropea issuing the decree of erection of the Church and in 1653 Don Matteo Capilupi is the first parish priest.
From the old Fontana del Casale, around which created the first homes, and homes scattered throughout the valley, the town grows higher, in the neighborhood of the bags, while new families after they have abandoned their places of origin destroyed by earthquake of 1638, Serra and build the districts Carpanzano. A few years later arise S. Joseph and Castagnari, and within a few years, the country takes on the urban structure that can be seen today.
With the sale of Savuto made by Aquinas in 1717 in favor of Baron Le Piane, the hamlet of San Mango is detached from the lands of the feudal right of the river and becomes a center is autonomous, with their own parliament and administrative bodies elected by the laws of time. Residents from just under 250 in 1674 to 628 in 1705 to exceed quota every thousand in 1764.
The eighteenth century is, overall, a century of growth and development and the country has an economic and social development. Cereals, oil, wine and dried fruit are the main agricultural products to be reported and the production of coal, as is practiced in homes at a profit, the cultivation of silkworms. The largest class are the peasants, supported by a strong presence of craft industries and professions: barber shops, tailors, shoemakers, masons, carpenters.
After the end of feudalism, declared by the early nineteenth century French kings, San Mango experienced a period of division, revenge, murder and clashes linked predominantly feudal usurpation of land became state property. These events are interwoven with the Risorgimento Garibaldi and when in 1860 over the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies to Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, the country emerges from the spiral of violence and becomes San Mango d'Aquino.
In 1876 it built the road from San Mango stock which leads to the bathroom through Bivio Nocera, Falerna and Gizzeria, and is implanted in the same year the telegraph network. In 1881 the census figure of 1972 marks the inhabitants and in this period is well established the Fair Cross the Mill. In 1890 ended the first nucleus of the Cemetery. In 1905 you dig the water to the mountain and stand the public fountains in the districts of Carpanzano, Cross Mill, St. Joseph, Piazza Sacchi Castagnari and Arellano. In 1911 the population reaches 2241 inhabitants.
During Fascism the way stock is extended to Martirano and the economy is still agriculture; despite the emigration, the population reaches 2249 inhabitants. After the war, even San Mango chooses the Republic and in 1951 the country has a population of 2404 inhabitants. But the misery and poverty push people to emigrate, and from 1961 to 1981 the country lost 393 inhabitants. An exodus that continues despite the phase of material well-being experienced in the late twentieth century, a stream of departures and drop it weakens the country and brings the population of 1.877 inhabitants.