[TI] Altavilla Milicia

[anna riggio]

The names Lema and Giovenco/Giovengo.
Altavilla just popped up recently.  I saw a relative and asked where 
were your parents
born?  He said Altavilla.  I thought they were Terminese.
Ann
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From: "Joseph Laiacona" <joseph at laiacona.org>
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Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TI] Altavilla Milicia


>I have done research in the Mormon records from Altavilla, if you need 
>some help.
>
> Joe
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>> Appears to be about halfway between Termini and Palermo along the 
>> coast..Much more can be found by doing a web search on the name.
>>
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>> Altavilla Milicia (Zip Code 90010) is 126 km. far from Agrigento, 121 
>> km. from Caltanissetta, 214 km. from Catania, 122 km. from Enna, 235 
>> km. from Messina, 24 km. from Palermo, which province it belongs to, 
>> 262 km. from Ragusa, 312 km. from Siracusa, 123 km. from Trapani.
>>
>> The municipality has 5.513 inhabitants and its area covers 2.379 
>> hectares for a density of population of 232 inhabitants per square 
>> kilometre. It rises on a hilly area near the coast and is 70 metres 
>> above sea-level.
>>
>> The Town Hall is placed in via Loreto n. 80, tel. ++39 091-951275 
>> fax. ++39 091-951826.
>>
>> Important in the agricultural field, besides citrus fruit, also olive 
>> trees and vine.
>>
>> The small town took its name from Altavilla, in honour of the most 
>> powerful Norman family whose leaders were the Great Count Ruggero and 
>> his brother Roberto the Guiscardo. They about 1060 began to conquer 
>> Sicily and rid it of Arabian domination.
>> The appositive Milicia was added in 1862 and derived from the near 
>> river to differentiate it from the others already present. At the 
>> early of XVII century the centre was founded by the marquise Sambuca 
>> Beccadelli on a existent small settling down. Altavilla Milicia then 
>> changed from him to Bologna family and remained for all the century.
>>
>> Destination of pilgrimages is now the Cathedral Church, consecrated 
>> to Madonna of Loreto, inside the present museum of popular 
>> religiousness that keeps a great quantity of ex vows painted on 
>> glass, tin and wood. The church and the baronial palace Beccadelli 
>> are placed in an unusual position: they are side to side on a long 
>> panoramic with a large view of the coast.
>>
>>
>> Jim
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