Montecorvino Rovella

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Comune in Campania, Italy

Coat of arms

Montecorvino Rovella within the
Province of Salerno and Campania

Location of Montecorvino Rovella

40°41′45.3″N 14°58′31.6″E / 40.695917°N 14.975444°E / 40.695917; 14.975444CountryItalyRegionCampaniaProvinceSalerno (SA)FrazioniChiarelli, Cornea, Ferrari, Gauro, Macchia, Marangi, Martorano, Molenadi (Sant'Eustachio), Nuvola, Occiano, San Lazzaro, San Martino, VotraciGovernment

• MayorMartino D'OnofrioArea

^[1]

• Total42.16 km² (16.28 sq mi)Elevation

220 m (720 ft)Population

(30 November 2017)^[2]

• Total12,677 • Density300/km² (780/sq mi)DemonymMontecorvinesiTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

84096 (communal seat), 84090 (frazioni)

Dialing code089Patron saintSts. Peter and PaulSaint day29 JuneWebsiteOfficial website

Montecorvino Rovella (Campanian: Ruella) is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-west Italy.

History

In 269 BC the Romans defeated the Picentes from the Adriatic Coast and founded a colony transplanting them forcedly in Campania, in the town of Picenza. After a rebellion in 89 BC, and the subsequent Roman victory, the Picentini survivors were forced to not rebuild a single town, but a series of villages, easily controllable in case of further riots. One of them was Montecorvino (Mons Corvinus).^[3] Until 1820 it included the village of Pugliano and, until 1990, the frazione of Bellizzi.

In 1970, an early medieval church of Sant-Ambrogio, dating to the ninth century, was rediscovered. It is currently being studied by a project based in the Universities of Birmingham (UK) and Salerno (Italy) ^[4]

Geography

Montecorvino is a hilltown surrounded by the Picentini mountain range, included into the Monti Picentini Regional Park. It borders with the municipalities of Acerno, Battipaglia, Bellizzi, Giffoni Valle Piana, Montecorvino Pugliano and Olevano sul Tusciano.^[5]

Transport

The town is served by the state highway SS 164 and by several provincial roads. Nearest motorway exit (12 km south) is "Montecorvino Pugliano" on the A2. Nearest railway station (11 km south) is "Montecorvino-Bellizzi", originally named only "Montecorvino Rovella", located in the town and former frazione of Bellizzi. Montecorvino is also 15 km north of Salerno-Pontecagnano Airport.

Notable people

John of Montecorvino (1247-1328), Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman.^[6]
Luca Gaurico (1475-1558), astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.
Robert Picardo (born 1953), American actor and singer with Italian heritage, with his father's family originating from Montecorvino and his mother's parents originally from Bomba, in Abruzzo.^[7]^[8]

References

^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ (in Italian) Source Archived 2020-07-18 at the Wayback Machine: Istat 2017
^ (in Italian) History of Montecorvino Rovella Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ Project website
^ 40662 (x a j h) Montecorvino Rovella on OpenStreetMap
^ Beazley, Charles Raymond (1911). "Monte Corvino, Giovanni di" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). pp. 763–764.
^ "Akuma XRex (aka il bruciato crackomane)". Archived from the original on July 9, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ (in Italian) Robert Picardo visits his ancestors in Montecorvino Archived 2016-04-17 at the Wayback Machine