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  Encyclopedia: Caltanissetta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Caltanissetta is located on the western interior of Sicily, an area of rolling hills with small villages and towns.
Caltanissetta is home to the Museo Archeologico, which holds displays from mostly prehistoric times and include finds from digs conducted int eh 1950's, including vases and tools from the Bronze Age and early Sicilian ceramics.
Caltanissetta is location of a transmitter of RAI for short- and longwave.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Caltanissetta   (256 words)

  
 Caltanissetta -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Caltanissetta is located on the western interior of (The Italian region on the island of Sicily) Sicily, an area of rolling hills with small villages and towns.
Caltanissetta is home to the Museo Archeologico, which holds displays from mostly prehistoric times and include finds from digs conducted in the 1950's, including vases and tools from the Bronze Age and early Sicilian ceramics.
Caltanissetta is location of a (Set used to broadcast radio or tv signals) transmitter of RAI for short- and longwave.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caltanissetta.htm   (384 words)

  
 Descendants of Benedetto Gruttadauria
1804 in Caltanissetta, Italy, and died December 25, 1863 in Caltanissetta, Italy.
Gruttadauria, born 1820 in Caltanissetta, Italy; died July 29, 1878 in Caltanissetta, Italy.
Gruttadauria, born September 03, 1843 in Caltanissetta, Italy; died September 24, 1843 in Caltanissetta, Italy.
www.gruttadauria.com /bene.htm   (2073 words)

  
 Caltanissetta, Sicily - History, Cuisine, and Tourism
Caltanissetta has a very sketchy history; nothing about the area is documented until the Norman conquest in 1086, although Bronze Age relics have been discovered, indicating human settlements that go much further back in time.
The city of Caltanissetta began to expand beyond its walls in the 15th century; it was declared the provincial capital in 1818.
Because of its moutainous location, the province of Caltanissetta experienced an explosion of growth in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as its mining industry boomed in the face of demand for metals and sulphur.
www.allthingssicilian.com /Caltanissetta2.html   (294 words)

  
 caltanisseta
The Province of Caltanissetta is inside the Sicily Region and involves a territory with 2.120 km2 and 22 municipalities with more than 285.000 inhabitants.
Caltanissetta is the chief city of the province.
In march 1999, the Province of Caltanissetta has submitted under the SAVE II Programme of the UE-DG XVII a proposal for the creation of a Local Energy Agency in the territory of Province of Caltanissetta, in collaboration with european and national partners.
www.project-ianus.org /web/caltanisseta.htm   (358 words)

  
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Until the end of the XIX century, the economy of the territory was based on agriculture, the cultivation of grain and breeding of sheep, and on a primeval industrial embryo which developed itself with the support of agricultural activity.
In a few years Caltanissetta became rich and florid, and even the poorest level of society profited from this weealth notwithstanding the inhuman conditions at times and the continuous risk; they had occasion to earn their daily bread.
In a parallel fashion, Caltanissetta has attracted, as a capital of a province, the population of a territory in search of occupation in public office, entrepreneurs and artisans intentioned on exploiting the central location of the territory and the public structures of the capital.
www.caltanissetta-scpa.it /mercurio/einfose.htm   (703 words)

  
 Best of Sicily - Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta boasts a large seventeenth-century cathedral built on the site of a much older church, and several late-medieval churches in the old part of town, though most of the latter, having been extensively modified in successive centuries, reflect little of their Middle Ages.
Caltanissetta was a smaller feudal town belonging to a family of counts.
Mussomeli, in the same province as Caltanissetta, has a splendid castle that you may be able to visit if this is arranged in advance.
www.bestofsicily.com /caltanissetta.htm   (519 words)

  
 Caltanissetta Links
I Caltanissetta I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Caltanissetta The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
And destiny is but th Caltanissetta He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be.
www.welcome-2-europe.com /Italy_Regions_Sicily_Provinces_Caltanissetta.html   (1633 words)

  
 Caltanissetta Links
Caltanissetta Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Caltanissetta The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
www.welcome-2-europe.com /Italy_Regions_Sicily_Localities_Caltanissetta.html   (1534 words)

  
 Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (Zip Code 93100) is the chief town of the province, it is 72 Km.
The municipality counts 62.881 inhabitants, its surface measures 42.035 hectares, and its population density counts 150 inhabitants per square kilometre.
As of 1860, Caltanissetta experienced a remarkable financial growth in the mining field, thus becoming an important European center as per sulfur mining.
sicilia.indettaglio.it /eng/comuni/cl/caltanissetta/caltanissetta.html   (311 words)

  
 Descendants of Gaetano Gruttadauria
Gruttadauria was born in Caltanissetta, Italy, and died in Caltanissetta, Italy.
She was born in Caltanissetta, Italy, and died in Caltanissetta, Italy.
She was born August 24, 1888 in Caltanissetta, Italy, and died August 22, 1974 in Rochester, N.Y., buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
www.gruttadauria.com /gaetano.htm   (12374 words)

  
 Racconti - "Ir'e Biniri" (in english)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It was the first time I had seen Peppi Rais, though in that year in Acquaviva, I rode the blue bus quite frequently and as I learned to speak the language, Peppi and I got to be friends.
I don't know what his last name was, but everyone called him Peppi "Rais," after "Punto Rais," the airport in Palermo because in the old days, before he was the ticket conductor on the blue Caltanissetta bus, he was the ticket conductor on the blue Palermo bus.
He was very short, dark-complexioned, had wavy hair that looked as if someone had painted it pitch-fl, then, finding it too dark, tried to cover it with streaks of snow-white.
www.siciliano.it /news.cfm?id=2058   (857 words)

  
 Gela - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Gela is a commune in the province of Caltanissetta, in the island of Sicily, Italy.
Gela is a city in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy.
The city can be reached from other cities, like Syracuse and Caltanissetta, by train.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Gela   (342 words)

  
 CALTANISSETTA
Located at the very heart of Sicily, Caltanissetta nestles atop a plateau at 568m asl.
Till then, the sulphur was exported worldwide, Caltanissetta’s output accounting for 80% of the world consume.
It collects relics discovered in the territory of Caltanissetta, from both the Indigenous and Hellenistic civilizations.
www.sicilynet.it /caltanissetta/caltanissetta.htm   (852 words)

  
 Sicily - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sicily has been noted for two millennia as a grain-producing territory: olives and wine are among its other agricultural products.
The mines of the Caltanissetta district became a leading sulphur-producing area in the 19th century, but have declined since the 1950s.
Most of Sicily's motorways (autostrade) run through the north of the region - the most important ones being A19 Palermo - Catania, A20 Palermo - Messina, A29 Palermo - Mazara del Vallo and the paid-for A18 Messina - Catania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sicily   (2437 words)

  
 Musei regionali - Caltanissetta museo archeologico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Il Museo illustra la storia dei siti antichi del territorio urbano e extraurbano di Caltanissetta e di altri centri del territorio della Provincia, dalla preistoria all’età tardo antica.
Dal 1996sono esposti nel Museo anche i materiali archeologici degli scavi condotti negli altri centri del territorio della provincia nissena, prima dalla Sovrintendenza di Caltanissetta.
Sala V- I siti del territorio settentrionale della provincia, dall’età del ferro all’età tardo antica (Cozzo Scavo, presso Santa Caterina di Villermosa, Polizzello e Monte Raffe, presso Mussomeli, Mimiani, presso Caltanissetta) e Capodarso (in provincia di Enna).
www.entasis.it /Musei_siciliani/caltanissetta_museo_archeologico.htm   (427 words)

  
 Comune di Caltanissetta
Lunedì 7 novembre si è riunita presso la sala biblioteca di Palazzo del Carmine la delegazione trattante del Comune di Caltanissetta, al fine di discutere il contratto collettivo decentrato dell'Ente....
Nell'ambito della manifestazione denominata "Italia X corsa" che domenica coinvolgerà anche il comune di Caltanissetta, l'assessore comunale carmalo Milazzo ha organizzato alcuni eventi sportivi....
I 50 anni di Italia Nostra nel Paese e i 25 anni della Sezione di Caltanissetta".
www.comune.caltanissetta.it   (825 words)

  
 Welcome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
We are the 1ALinguistico of the "L.Russo" in Caltanissetta.
My family is made up of five people: my father, my mother, my sister, my brother and me. My father is forty and he is a trader, my mother is thirty-five and she is also a trader, my sister is nine and my brother is eleven.
I live in Caltanissetta, a city in the center of Sicily, a beautiful island in the Mediterranean sea.
www.raahe.fi /~sya/comenius/classlettera.html   (2391 words)

  
 The Provincies of Sicily: Caltanissetta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The province of Caltanissetta is situated in the southern part of Sicily.
The place of the Regional Province is in Piazza Marconi, 93100 Caltanissetta (CL).
Acquaviva Platani, Bompensiere, Butera, Caltanissetta, Campofranco, Delia, Gela, Marianopoli, Mazzarino, Milena, Montedoro, Mussomeli, Niscemi, Resuttano, Riesi, San Cataldo, Santa Caterina Villarmosa, Serradifalco, Sommatino, Sutera, Vallelunga Pratameno, Villalba.
sicilia.indettaglio.it /eng/provincie/cl/provcl.html   (119 words)

  
 Caltanissetta Museo Archeologico
Il museo illustra la storia dei siti antichi del territorio urbano ed extraurbano di Caltanissetta e di altri centri del territorio della provincia, dalla preistoria all'età tardo antica.
Tra i più importanti siti si segnalano Dessueri, nel territorio di Mazzarino, con i resti di un complesso abitativo risalente all'età del bronzo recente e finale (XI-X sec.
Dal 1996 sono esposti nel Museo anche i materiali archeologici degli scavi condotti negli altri centri del territorio della provincia nissena, prima dalla Soprinten-denza di Agrigento e dal 1992 in poi dalla Soprintendenza di Caltanissetta.
www.regione.sicilia.it /beniculturali/dirbenicult/musei/musei2/mucaltanissetta.htm   (808 words)

  
 sicilie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Caltanisetta's Territory, thanks to its strategic importance, its links with the sea to the south and with the inland to the north, also to its geographical and geological environment due to the develop of the cities, it was almost frequented by differents population in different ages.
Residenced and transitated by Siculi and Sicani, Caltanissetta catched a great political importance during the Greek colonization; it knew long domination and periods of decline, but also periods of great economic and commercial flouriability, especially during the sulphur mines' "Golden Age".
This great heterogeneity of events left indelible signes on its territory: a vast variety of archeological sites, Castles and sighting towers of the middle age; Palaces and the marvelous Churches of the different communes, reflex of propitions and nobility; sulphur mines and gills, remained now as the sulphure industry of Sicily.
www.reiswijs.com /landeninfo/europa/italie/sicilie/sicilie.html   (1890 words)

  
 Gela, Caltanissetta - Sicilia - Italy
Italy > Region Sicily > Province Caltanissetta: Comune Gela
Gela is a city in the province of Caltanissetta at about 84 kilometers distance from the province capital, on the Mediterranean Sea, larger than the provincial capital.
An important industrial city with oil refinery plants and busy port.
www.italyworldclub.com /sicilia/caltanissetta/gela.htm   (204 words)

  
 caltanissetta Bed and Breakfast
BED and BREAKFAST's in the province of CALTANISSETTA:
Old and rustic hamlet build with stones, is dipped in the middle of a magic olive-grove, near the Niscima’s stream.
in contrada Floresta - Mazzarino - Caltanissetta The house is set in the in the vast and rich district of Mazzarino, an old feudal village, area of important archeological sites.
www.sicilynet.it /bed-and-breakfast.cfm?provincia=cl&p=caltanissetta   (214 words)

  
 Motorhome Hire in Sicily (Sicilia), Italy - Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, ...
Motorhome Hire in Sicily (Sicilia), Italy - Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani
Motorhome Hire in Sicily (Sicilia), Italy - Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna,...
One of the most awe-inspiring sights is Mount Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano.
www.italy-motorhome-hire.com /locations/sicily/index.html   (122 words)

  
 Province of Caltanissetta
The province comprises twenty-two cities totalling an extension of 2,128.20 square kilometres.
Caltanissetta is much frequented by tourists, notably over Easter period, here celebrated with a series of long-waited events such as two processions taking place on Maundy Wednesday and Thursday – this one known as the Procession delle Vare.
The city offers sites of both historical and naturalistic interest as well as a much appreciated cuisine where especially renowned is the sweet almond torrone.
www.caltanissetta-sicilia.it /english   (307 words)

  
 Home page
– Il sito contiene una vasta gamma di informazioni su Caltanissetta: storia, notizie, cultura, arte, appuntamenti, associazioni, industria, commercio, turismo, artigianato e annunci.
– Sito ufficiale dell’Azienda Autonoma Provinciale Incremento Turistico di Caltanissetta.
Città: Palermo, Agrigento, Caltanissetta, Catania, Enna, Messina, Ragusa, Siracusa, Trapani, CAP e prefissi - Numeri utili - Istituzioni ed associazioni - Università - Scuole – Ospedali
www.stpauls.it /itinerari/sicilia_sardegna.htm   (2823 words)

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