SAN PIETRO CLARENZA
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San Pietro Clarenza is a city of about 5,000
located 463 m a.s.l. It has a mainly agricultural economy, with outstanding
outputs of oil, wine, citrus fruits, grapes, prickly-pears. It is also renowned
for its embroidery.
HISTORY
Its names respectively derive from area’s
people’s cult of St. Peter and from the Clarenza family. It was one
of the Hamlets of Catania, successively ruled by Lord Giovanni Andrea Massa,
Antonio Reitano, who became Prince in 1648, the Pietrasanta family and, in the
18th century, by the Paternòs Princes of Biscari. Like many other
towns in the Eastern Sicily, it was subject to two great catastrophes, namely
the 1669 eruption and the 1693 earthquake, that highly ravaged it. The town was
soon rebuilt and named San Pietro; the name Clarenza would be added in 1779
when it was bought by the noble Giuseppe Marino Clarenza.
THE CITY
Several late-Baroque noble palazzi in town are
worth-visiting. San Pietro Clarenza has been hometown of the Comes, the family
of naturalist Salvatore (1880-1954), Professor of Zoology at the Palermo
University, and the writer Salvatore (1912-1973) who was Direttore Generale
dell’Istruzione Universitaria (General Director of the Universitary Education)
in Italy and author of critique works on Ada Negri, Enrico Onufrio and
“Letteratura Garibaldina”.