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  Province of Caltanissetta - Sicilia - Italy
The Province of Caltanissetta has a surface area of 2128 square km, with a total population of about 280,000 inhabitants.
The territory of the province includes environmental areas as the Lake Biviere di Gela, an important spot for migratory birds, the southern Valley of the Imera, the Lake Soprano of Serrafidalco and the beautiful Sugherata forest at Niscemi.
The province appears divided into two sections connected through a narrow corridor, whith the southern part being the most populated with centers as Niscemi, Riesi, Mazzarino, Sommatino, and on the coast the harbor of Gela.
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  Caltanissetta, Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Caltanissetta is the hub of public transport in the area.
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.
It is one of a few provinces that borders a commune which is the capital of another province and is Enna and one of the largest communes in the island.
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 Caltanissetta, Italy
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 in the 1950's, including vases and tools from the Bronze Age and early Sicilian ceramics.
It is one of a few provinces that borders a commune which is the capital of another province and is Enna and one of the largest communes in the island.
www.creekin.net /c4575-n91-caltanissetta-italy.html   (216 words)

  
 Province of Caltanissetta - Definition, explanation
The Province of Caltanissetta is a province in the southern part of Sicily, Italy.
The province extends to the central part of Sicily in the northwestern direction where the capital is located.
The commune of Resuttano is found in an enclave of the province of Palermo near Caltanissetta between Monte Stretto and Portella del Vento, an enclafe without locality of the province of Enna.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/pr/province_of_caltanissetta.php   (153 words)

  
 Province of Caltanissetta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Province of Caltanissetta is a province in the southern part of Sicily, Italy.
Province of Palermo, NW Province of Enna, N
The commune of Resuttano is found in an enclave of the province of Palermo near Caltanissetta between Monte Stretto and Portella del Vento, an enclafe without locality of the province of Enna.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_of_Caltanissetta   (211 words)

  
 Governments - Provinces
Provincia di Ascoli Piceno Province of Ascoli Piceno
Autonome Provinz Bozen - Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano Autonomous Province of Bozen
Provincia di Reggio Emilia Province of Reggio Emilia
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 caltanisseta
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.
The Province is working in collaboration with ENEA, the national public institute for the renewable energies, on a project for the evaluation and audit of the thermal plants.
www.project-ianus.org /web/caltanisseta.htm   (358 words)

  
 Mitfahrzentrale & Mitfahrgelegenheit • Gela • Fahrt fuer Cents
Butera - Butera is an Italian town and comune in the province of Caltanissetta, in the southwestern part of the island of Sicily.
Gela - Gela is a city in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy.
Mazzarino is a city in the province of Caltanissetta in the region of Sicily, Italy.
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 Farmhouses - agriturismo throughout Sicily
This family run baglio is located in a rural setting in the province of Trapani and lies between the slopes of Mount Erice and the Stagnone Lagoon.
Agriturismo Casalicchio is located in a rural and isolated setting in the province of Agrigento and overlooking the valley of the River Plantani.
Agriturismo Sillitti is set amongst 90 acres of farmland in the Province of Caltanissetta in the centre of Sicily and approximately 112km from Catania airport.
www.opensicily.com /en/farmhouses_list.php   (1110 words)

  
 Caltanissetta - Best of Sicily
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   (556 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In addition to the traditional sectors, the island's economy has seen the development of activities associated with new technologies, especially computers and telecommunications in the province of Catania, in the so-called "Etna valley".
Two important technological poles are the Department of Chemical Processes and Material Engineering at the University of Palermo and the National Research Council's Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Catania.
For beautiful landscapes there is the Zingaro Nature Reserve (in the Province of Trapani), and the area of Monte Cofano with the ancient troglodytic caves in Scurati.
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 Gela - Definition, explanation
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 has a larger population than the provincial capital, and is one of the largest in the province, but ranks second in land area.
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 Welcome to Sicily Bella - About the province of Caltanissetta
Situated in the extreme west area of the Province, Acquaviva Platani was founded in the 1635 by the noble Francesco Spatafora, marquis of Roccella and prince of Maletto.
Beyond the inhabited centre there are sandy dunes, famous for the unloading of the Allies in the night among the 9th and 10th July 1943.
Montedoro was, together with many other cities of the province, a sulphur minings center between 19th and the 20th century.
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 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)

  
 Map of Caltanissetta. Location of Caltanissetta. (The province of Caltanissetta)
This is a map of Italy that identifies the province of Caltanissetta.
The province of Caltanissetta is a part of the Sicilia (Sicily) region.
Italy: Index to provinces and regions in Italy.
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 Caltanissetta
Caltanissetta (Sicilian Cartanissetta or Nissa) is a city located on the western interior of...
Caltanissetta - Sicilia - Italy">Province of Caltanissetta - Sicilia - Italy
Province of Province of Caltanissetta, Region Sicilia Italy, with surnames and information on the municipalities to help in genealogy research.
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 Sicily Region - Sicily for Tourists - Castles itinerary - Province of Siracusa - Spanish Fort - Portopalo di Capo ...
Sicily Region - Sicily for Tourists - Castles itinerary - Province of Siracusa - Spanish Fort - Portopalo di Capo Passero
At Portopalo, by the sea, one can still see traces of the old tuna fishery, with its yard, its loggia, the factory with its furnace, the warehouses, the house of the owners (the Bruno di Belmonte family), and this aristocratic family's chapel, built in the 17th cent.
A room on the ground floor became a parish church dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation, where there are believed to be the graves of some persons who died in the 17th cent., as testified by a number of tombstones.
www.regione.sicilia.it /turismo/web_turismo/sicilia/uk/itinerari/castelli/forte_portopalo.html   (262 words)

  
 FCC - FOMENTO DE CONSTRUCCIONES Y CONTRATAS - FCC WINS AN ITALIAN WATER MANAGEMENT CONTRACT WORTH 1,500 MILLION EUROS
The province of Caltanissetta, located on the island of Sicily, has 23 towns and a total population of 275,000.
Caltanissetta's two largest population centres are Gela (72,000 inhabitants) and Caltanissetta (61,000 inhabitants), and Aqualia would begin operations with 100,000 customers.
The province of Caltanissetta is caught up in the middle of a period of economic expansion, thanks to its being chosen as the European point of entry for Libyan gas.
www.fcc.es /fcc/corp/ing/sdp_n_ddln_208.htm   (871 words)

  
 Province of Caltanissetta - History
The remotest roots of Caltanissetta are as yet uncertain.
Relics from the Bronze Age and several cave-sepulchres seem to attest to prehistoric settlements.
A remarkable urban development was recorded in the 15th century, Caltanissetta extending its territory beyond the city walls.
www.caltanissetta-sicilia.it /english/storia.htm   (102 words)

  
 Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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.sicilyweb.com /english/caltanissetta/introduction.htm   (75 words)

  
 Siciliatour Homepage
City (Town of 415,94 km2 with 61.319 inhabitants, "nisseni" called) of Sicily, main town of the homonymous province, placed at 568 meters upon the sea level.
It is possible to reach the ruins of Gebel-Habib, on the Monte Gibil Gabel, 615 meters, where was located an agglomerate of houses, probably the ancient Nisa or Nissa, which the today's denomination of Caltanissetta is derived.
Was subject to the Saraceni, which interpreted the name, if it is true that in Arabic Caltanissetta means "women's fortress" with a refer to its hilly position.
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 Sicily villas from Discover-sicily
The remaining production, together with that of the province of Enna, is included in the IGT Sicilia.
The journey starts off from Vallelunga Pratameno, at the border with the province of Palermo, where the Tasca d’Almerita winery is worth to mention, especially for its Rosso del Conte wine.
The tour ends at Piazza Armerina, in the province of Enna, a town renowned for the mosaics of the Roman Villa.
www.discover-sicily.co.uk /about_sicily_wine_roads_caltanissetta.htm   (108 words)

  
 BACKGROUND
As to these provinces, at present “cosa nostra” apparently focused its attention on the systematic exploitation of the local economy through extortions that, together with drug trafficking, represent the major self-financing form, waiting for more considerable resources that in the next future shall be represented by public contracts.
The recent crimes  committed in the Calabrian provinces, also in those that are traditionally considered as less interested by this phenomenon, such as Catanzaro and Cosenza, show a high vitality of the organisation,  that does not appear to be weakening, notwithstanding a strong law enforcement counteraction.
In the province of Catanzaro, with the exception of the Lamezia area,  there are no significant new elements concerning the internal balances of the mafia families,  that currently appear  to be strongly interested  in the works for the building of the third lane of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway.
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 CALTANISSETTA Bed and Breakfast, Case Vacanza, Appartamenti, Ostelli
The Bed and Breakfast "Smile", easy and comforting, Caltanissetta is found to (Sicily), in the heart of the historical center, to a footstep from the plant "Garibaldi Plaza" and from the principal cultural and commercial itineraries.
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.bed-and-breakfast-sicily.it /bed_and_breakfast_caltanissetta.cfm   (304 words)

  
 ItalianMade.com - WINES: Riesi DOC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Historical data on the feudal territory of Riesi goes back to the 13th Century, but the present town was founded in 1647, when people from the surrounding areas were given asylum here and the town became the dominion of the princely house of Pignatelli.
For many centuries, this territory, in the province of Caltanissetta, was marginal in the production of Sicilian wine.
This has been made possible thanks to the initiative of a very small group of winemakers who, fully aware of the qualitative potential of their produce, have had the courage to abandon the production of blending wines in pursuit of the affirmation of the quality of their own wine.
www.italianmade.com /wines/DOC10321.cfm   (164 words)

  
 K P S Gill: Pakistan - The Footprints of Terror -- Islamist Extremism & Terrorism in South Asia
Another was reported to be Abu Obaidah al-Masri, Al Qaeda’s chief of operations for the eastern Afghan province of Kunar and the third was Abdur Rehman al-Maghribi, the Moroccan son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden’s top lieutenant Ayman Al-Zawahri and the head of Al Qaeda’s media operations.
According to the Governor, the arrested man was identified as Sher Ali, hailing from Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
Some terrorists from the Chinese province of Xinjiang are hiding in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Chinese Deputy Director of Public Security, Ma Mingyue, said in Urumqi on May 28.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/kpsgill/2003/chapter2.htm   (17147 words)

  
 Some data about the province of Caltanissetta
Despite the presence of various hotels, lodges, farm shelters, and the remarkable efforts made by several Governative Agencies the province of Caltanissetta accounts just for a bit less than 1% of the regional tourist traffic.
The situation turns out to be particularly serious for youngest people, for which some social aids are available, such as temporary employment for carrying on activities of social interest.
A global overview of the enterprises in the province of Caltanissetta is reported in the following table:
www.sicilia.indettaglio.it /eng/provincie/cl/cifrecl.html   (217 words)

  
 Mitfahrzentrale & Mitfahrgelegenheit • Delia • Fahrt fuer Cents
Ravanusa - Ravanusa is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about 110 km southeast of Palermo and about 35 km east of Agrigento.
Delia (Italy) - Delia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Caltanissetta in the Italian region Sicily, located about 100 km southeast of Palermo and about 20 km southwest of Caltanissetta.
Canicattì - Canicattì is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Agrigento in the Italian region Sicily, located about 90 km southeast of Palermo and about 25 km east of Agrigento.
www.fahrtfuercents.net /index.php?module=advert_list&mode=end&city=Delia   (192 words)

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