Peschici, Città di Peschici, Storia di Peschici, Provincia di Foggia - Appartamenti Hotel Villaggio Julia Residence Peschici

Peschici is a town of 4314 inhabitants of the province of Foggia. It's part of the Parco Nazionale del Gargano e della Comunità Montana del Gargano. Gargano seaside resort is perched on a rock icon whose beauty has made her famous in the world. For the quality of its bathing water has been repeatedly awarded the Blue Flag, a prestigious recognition of the Foundation for Environmental Education.

Its Origins:
Two historic ecclesiastical, P. Sarnelli and M. Knights in 1680 state that the origins of Peschici be traced to Schiavoni or Slavs, called by the Otto I to free the Gargano by the Saracens. Pompeo Sarnelli wrote the year, the 970th Both historians indicate Sueripolo the head of the Slavs, because the Sarnelli writes: "Sueripolo, Captain of the Slavs, with his army Discacciati way the Saracens from Monte Gargano" the victorious Slavs "were paid by the, making habitare in the S. Vito in Gargano, dividing them into two colonies Vico called the one, the other Peschici. The very name of Peschici is probably of Slavic origin, in fact the root Slavic pes, fishing refers to the sand, place-names Slavic and Russian pjèskusa Pesko indicate sandy soil. Many were the raids of Saracen dall'866 to 969 on the shores Garganico that went into the tenth century. One thing is certain, Peschici century was certainly inhabited, and this is confirmed in a document, the Chartula offertionis in S. Mary Devia of 1053, which appears for the first time the name, and to the effect that three Slavs lived "... intus Castle Pesclizo ..."[ Cod Dipl. Tremiti doc.47> (The Byzantines by the word "Castle" designated centers fortified minors). Under the feudal system introduced by the Normans found in 1154, under the Peschici County Lesina. In this period changed from a feudal lord to another. In 1177 is under the fief of Monte Sant'Angelo, donated by William II Buono said his wife Joan of England. Under the dominion of the Swabians, Peschici dramatic moments came in the quarrel between empire and papacy. A chronicler of the time tells us that in September 1239, 25 Venetian galleys sent by Pope Gregory IX excommunicated Frederick against him, "take and prostrate Bestice (Peschici) and Beasts (Vieste). Federico will rebuild the fortifications of the two centers. Under the Angevin dynasty, Peschici is among the few countries loyal to King Charles, at the time of the arrival of Corradino of Swabia (1267). In 1274 took part in Bari, Monopoli, Trani, Vieste Ortona and the fleet of all'assedio pugliese Omiš, city of Dalmatian coast. In 1401 the fief passed to King Ladislaus of Durazzo. During the Aragonese domination, supported the Gargano (1458) the barons against King Alfonso, who in 1462 occupied the Gargano who went to Giorgio Skanderberg, ally of the Spanish king. Against the background of this scenario is always present Venice, the seaside town that controls all traffic to the East and the Adriatic coast: between 1469 and 1586 Peschici appears in 23 papers and portolani much of it written by geographers of the Serenissima. Moreover, in other documents is a certificate that Peschici Dubrovnik ships were built between 1550 and 1570: "Ser Antonio de Stephano de Ser Marco Ragusa et de Johanne companies are building a ship in the scope of carra 250th Construction company debía be Peschize earth. The dispesa will ducati 500 "[Cod Dipl. Barlo., Vol. 10, No 28> "In de Gargano Peschize you build a ship pro parte Johannis de Natale de Ragusa, Baroli commorantis". The Calefato is Marinus de Ragusa. [Cod Dipl. Barlo., Vol. 10, n.380> After the Franco-Spanish war for the possession of the kingdom of Naples, but especially after the latest raids of the Turks, which we have evidence in a manuscript of Timothy Mainardi (Grounds of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Tremiti 1592), mentioned in the 1554 massacre of Vieste, in which there were thousands of victims, and in 1567 the siege of Tremiti, it was decided the construction of ten towers along the coasts of Capitanata. Five years later the number of towers up to 21 and among them are the Monte Pucci and the Calalunga, which was then in ruins in 1570. The first description of Peschici since we Sarnelli in 1676: "Terra Baronial. And 'situated in prominent place, and enjoy the view of the sea. " He writes that the town is contained in the walls of enclosure: outside the churches of Our Lady of Loreto and Santa Maria of string, the convents of Calena, S. Francis and S. Niccolò. Drought or one of the recurrent invasions of locusts (1663) made many victims from significantly decimate the population. In'700 a plaque placed on Recinto Baronale in the center, confirming membership of the Prince of Peschici Ischitella Emmanuel Pinto. During the insurgency antiborbonca around the Gargano will provide sales, associations charcoal, and in 1848 the Peschici antiborbonico-active and liberal politician, poet and writer Joseph Libetta (known as commander of the first steam ship that dared to cross the Mediterranean The Ferdinand I, which sailed from Naples on 27 September 1818) entered the House of Savoy was born in the Constitution. At the plebiscite of 1860 nearly 40% of peschiciani voted in favor of the Bourbons. In 1865, the isolation of Promontorio Garganico broke through the construction of the road circum Gargano, the current SS 89. In 1931 the railroad arrived in 1939 and was completed Aqueduct Pugliese. Despite the battles during the fascist regime for the population growth and production of wheat, Peschici the census of 1936 increased by one third but also the growing phenomenon of migration. Not better the situation of the postwar period, in fact, with the increase in population is not growing jobs and livelihoods, but only the number of emigrants. Only with the advent of tourism around the year 1960 there will be improvements that will bring much fruit visible today.

Geography :
The village of Peschici is located on the top (and along the western side) of an imposing cliff Karstic that, rising to more than one hundred meters on the Adriatic, over a beautiful bay, among the most photographed in Europe.

The historic core of the village, still intact, climbs from the harbor up to the fortifications of the Swabian castle. The urban fabric has a morphology intricatissima, made up of narrow streets, hidden squares, cohorts, steep stairs, narrow passages, strings and especially white houses, typical of the Apulian coast. The urban expansion, mainly in the twentieth century, took place in two areas and in different ways: on the headland, towards the hinterland, of relatively intensive, and in the Valle Clavia towards Montepucci, of sporadic and tourist vocation - receptive. The municipality, between the towns of Vico del Gargano Vieste and presents un'escursione altitude of 582m and un'orografia fierce and varied. Along the coast there are majestic headlands, often crossed by systems of sea caves, coves and beautiful, sometimes almost inaccessible. The green cover rate is well wooded, mostly of Aleppo pine trees that grow in the area from the hills for the flaps up to the beaches. This maquis. Olive spread. Peschici 9Km is from San Menaio (SS89), 13km from Vico del Gargano (SS89), 14Km from Rhodes Garganico, 21Km from Vieste (SS89 or SP23) and about 122km from Foggia.

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Towers:
From the beginning the story of Peschici is deeply tied to the sea and its dangers. The village was founded, in fact, in the eleventh century by a handful of soldiers sent Slavs in the area by Otto I to deal with the threat of the Saracen. A memory of a history of attacks and raids are now some coastal towers erected in the second half of the sixteenth century to defend the area from pirates and corsairs. The forts are raised on high cliffs overlooking the sea in a panoramic and dominant than all'Adriatico: this shows the strategic location and functional all'avvistamento and reporting of enemy ships. The towers are quadrangular base and have the form of logs of the pyramid, access was from the side facing the mountains by means of retractable wooden ladders, later replaced by flights fixed in masonry. The slits, however, which is also the windows were open in the side walls. Each tower would be visible from the other two towers: the warning of impending raids by day was by means of smoke signals, at night by means of signs of fire or using the sound of bells or horns. Sometimes they were even sent messengers on horseback to alert the local population. Among the surviving towers the most famous is that of Monte Pucci that offers its visitors a magnificent view. The tower, perched on high limestone rock, wrapped dall'esaltante pine scent mixed with that of the myrtle, has lost the original crown and the other dimensions of the area has very limited evidence that the function of sighting or not, then , defensive.

Trivia:
On 31 October 1998 was conducted in Peschici a winning record at Superenalotto. With a maxisistema were won over 63 billion lire. In that time this figure was the highest ever for a game won prizes in Europe. In May 2003 the Australian actress Nicole Kidman went on holiday with his parents in Peschici, interrupting his participation in the Festival del Cinema di Cannes. Peschici is the only European city attached to the mainland where you see the sun always rises and sets in the sea, another characteristic of Peschici is to be the most common of Italy far from the provincial capital, in fact Foggia is 122 km. A Peschici was set on the first episode of the film Summer of the sea, the brothers Vanzina. The episode is entitled The Count of Monte Cristo and featuring Lino Banfi and Victoria Silvstedt.

Sport:
-- On 18 May 2000 the 5th stage of Giro d'Italia in 2000 ended in Peschici with the victory of Danilo Di Luca.
- On 16 May 2006 the 6th stage of the Giro d'Italia in 2006 ended in Peschici with the victory of Franco PELLIZOTTI.
- On 15 May 2008 the 6th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2008 ended with a victory Peschici Matthew Priamo.
The local football team is called Atletico Peschici (www.atletico.peschici.it) participate in all youth activities, the responsible technical area is Bonsanti Joseph. Currently, the military Peschici Third in championship class but until three years ago was one of the pri seats in the regional championship for the first category.

Fire:
On 24 July 2007 Peschici was in the middle of an apocalyptic fire, willfully developed and which has claimed 3 victims. The flames have destroyed a significant part of the surrounding flora. According to many, jugo, that day blew particularly impetuous, he would have favored the rapid spread of flames. Thanks largely to the timely intervention of the local people have been rescued over 1,500 people, transported from the beaches to the port of Peschici. The inhabitants were also made in order to prevent the front of the fire to reach the heart of Peschici. The first request for help has started (according to the mayor) at 09:45, the first helicopter was at 12:45 p.m. and first aid by land soltando are occurring in the late afternoon. Sull 'happened all the newspapers, television and papers that have modeled some' hands, giving news and catastrophic undermining the bathing season in progress. Today, except a small portion of pine forest burned gone (almost exclusively in the affected area above Baia San Nicola), appearance of plant life is the same as the past.

Source: it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peschici