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| Country |  Italy |
| Region | Sicily |
| Province | Ragusa (RG) |
| Mayor | Giuseppe Di Giacomo (since May 27, 2003) |
| Elevation | 209 m (686 ft) |
| Area | 64. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Sicily ( Italian and Sicilian: Sicilia) is an autonomous region of Italy. In Italy, a Province (in Italian provincia) is an administrative division of intermediate level between Municipality ( Comune The Province of Ragusa ( Provincia di Ragusa; Sicilian: Pruvincia di Rausa) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily Events 927 - Simeon the Great, Tsar of Bulgaria, dies 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. 93 km² (25 sq mi) |
| Population (as of December 31, 2004) | |
| - Total | 29,402 |
| - Density | 453/km² (1,173/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET, UTC+1 |
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| Gentilic | Comisani |
| Dialing code | 0932 |
| Postal code | 97013 |
| Frazioni | Pedalino, Quaglio |
| Patron | Saint Blaise |
| - Day | Last Sunday of July |
| Website: comune.comiso.rg.it | |
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Geography
Comiso consists of three boroughs: Comiso, Pedalino, and Quaglio. It lies some 22 km west of Ragusa in the South of Sicily. Ragusa ( Raùsa in Sicilian) is a city in southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of The main productive sectors are agriculture (wine and vegetables) and trades, including smithery, cabinet making and marble work.
Neighboring communities are: Chiaramonte Gulfi, Ragusa, and Vittoria. Chiaramonte Gulfi (Ciaramunti is a town in the Province of Ragusa, Sicilia, Italy. Vittoria is a town in the Province of Ragusa, Sicilia, Italy.
History
In ancient times, Comiso (Greek: Kasmenai) was a Greek colony. Colonies in antiquity were City-states founded from a mother- City The town was established from Syracuse around 642 BCE and in 212 BCE, it was destroyed by the Romans. Events and trends Assyrian king Ashurbanipal founds library which includes our earliest complete copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh. Events By place Greece After being stopped twice by the Romans in his attempts to invade Illyria by sea and constrained by the Ancient Rome was a Civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC
Under the Byzantinesa new borough began to grow around the monasteries of St. Nicolò and Saint Blaise, expanding further under the later Norman and Aragonese domination of Sicily. It was later a fief of the Chiaromonte, Cabrera and Naselli families: the latter, counts of the city from 1571, boosted the economy of the city and built new district outside the ancient walls. Chiaromonte is a town and Comune in the Province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata.
Comiso was devastated by the 1693 earthquake and rebuilt on the same spot as the old ruins in the Sicilian Baroque style. Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture that took hold on the island of Sicily
The United States Air Force deployed Ground Launched cruise missiles (GLCM) to Comiso Air Base in June 1983. A cruise missile is a guided Missile that carries an explosive payload and uses a lifting wing and a propulsion system usually a Jet engine, to allow The missiles were eventually dismantled after the Intermediate-Range and Short-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was signed by the former Soviet Union and the United States on 8 December 1987. The last 16 GLCMs left Comiso Air Base in 1991.
Main sights
- Hot Springs, first constructed during the Roman era, with remnants of mosaics dating from the 2nd century CE. The 2nd century is the period from 101 to 200 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era.
- Mother Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, from the 15th century, greatly damaged by the earthquake of 1693. It has a nave and two aisles, with rich internal decorations dating from the 17th century. The high altar has a painting representing the Nativity of the Virgin, attributed to Carlo Maratta. Carlo Maratta or Maratti ( May 13, 1625 - December 15 1713) was an Italian painter of High Baroque, active mostly in Rome
- Church of San Filippo Neri (16th century), with the annexed Oratory. St Philip Romolo Neri (Italian Filippo de Neri; also known as Apostle of Rome; July 22, 1515 – May 25, 1595
- Church of San Francesco dell’Immacolata, built in the 13th century, with a quadrangular cloister was added in the 15th century. A cloister (from Latin claustrum) is a part of Cathedral, Monastic and Abbey architecture The church houses the burial chapel of the Naselli barons, with a funerary monument of Baldassarre II Nasellil attributed to Antonello Gagini. Antonello Gagini (1478 &ndash 1536 was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance, mainly active in Sicily and Calabria.
- The Neoclassicist Church of the Annunziata (16th century), rebuilt from 1772 to 1773 when a baroque façade was added. In Christianity the Annunciation ( grc Ευαγγελισμός της Θεοτόκου, Evangelismós tēs Theotókou in Greek) is the revelation Year 1772 ( MDCCLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical A facade or façade (fəˈsɑːd is generally one side of the exterior of a Building, especially the front but also sometimes the sides and rear The interior has precious artworks dating from the 15th century onwards, as well as a marble font by Mario Rutelli (1912). Mario Rutelli ( Palermo, 4 April 1859 - 1941 was an Italian sculptor
- Castello Naselli, originally an octagonal Byzantine fortress renovated in the 14th century. This article is about the city See also Byzantine Empire. Byzantium ( Greek: Βυζάντιον Latin: la BYZANTIVM
- Peace Pagoda : on 24 May 1998,[1] the Reverend Gyosho Morishita of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji Buddhist Order dedicated a stupa at Comiso, near the NATO base. A Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist Stupa designed to provide a focus for people of all races and creeds and to help unite them in their search for world peace Events 1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. 1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned Nipponzan Myōhōji (日本山妙法寺 founded in 1917 by Nichidatsu Fujii, is a new religious movement that emerged from the Nichiren sect of Japanese A stupa (from Sanskrit and Pāli: m स्तूप stūpa, literally meaning "heap" is a mound-like structure containing Buddhist The North Atlantic Treaty
Notable people
Transportation
Comiso has a train station, which lies on the Syracuse - Licata line. Salvatore Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo (born 1 November, 1943) is a Belgian composer and singer of Ballads, mainly in French Gesualdo Bufalino (Comiso Italy, November 15, 1920 - June 14 1996) was an Italian writer Salvatore Fiume ( October 23, 1915 &ndash June 3 1997) was an Italian painter, Sculptor, Architect, Licata ( Greek:; Latin: Phintias or Plintis; formerly also Alicata) is a city located on the south coast of Sicily, at The train journey to Ragusa is 30 minutes, to Syracuse 2 hours 30 minutes, and to Licata 1 hour and 45 minutes.
References
- The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.
External links
- Article at ragusa.net
- Photographs and descriptions of some Sicilian Baroque churches - scroll down for Comiso
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