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Scurcola Marsicana

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Scurcola Marsicana

Total population

2,501

Elevation700 m
Land area30.38 km²
Coordinates42.06°, 13.34°

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City facts

Elevation
700 m
Area
30.38 km²
Official website
www.comune.scurcolamarsicana.aq.it

Sister cities

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Overview

Scurcola Marsicana is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

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History & geography

History

The most ancient findings of human presence in the area date from the 9th-8th centuries BC. The name is of Lombard origin, and is first mentioned around 1150 AD. In the nearby, in the Palentine Plains (), was fought the Battle of Tagliacozzo between Conradin of Hohenstaufen and Charles I of Anjou. The city was also the seat of a massacre of the local population by the Piedmontese troops in the aftermath of the unification of Italy.

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Geography

Latitude
42.0631
Longitude
13.3392
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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Notable people from here

Boniface IV
Boniface IV
pope
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Naevius Sutorius Macro
Prefect of the Praetorian Guard (21 BC - 38 AD)
A
Antonio Santucci
Italian priest (1928–2018)
E
Ermanno Amicucci
Italian politician and journalist (1890-1955)
G
Giovanni De Ponte
Italian Catholic cardinal and archbishop
Leo of Ostia
Leo of Ostia
catholic cardinal
Vittorio Marcelli
Vittorio Marcelli
Italian cyclist
Andrea Argoli
Andrea Argoli
Italian mathematician and astronomer
Americo Giuliani
Americo Giuliani
Italian poet
A
Antonio Chichiarelli
Italian counterfeiter (1948-1984)
Antonio Rocco
Antonio Rocco
Italian writer and philosopher
A
Ascanio Mari
Italian goldsmith
D
Dino Di Domenico
Italian opera singer
F
Franco Salvatori
Italian geographer
G
Gino Salica
Italian engineer
Giovanni Argoli
Giovanni Argoli
Italian writer

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Nearby places in Abruzzo

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
4.04
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,473

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
65
Avg daily Wikipedia views
2
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

ISTAT — Italian National Institute of Statistics

ISTAT code
066096
Province
L'Aquila (AQ)
Region
Abruzzo
NUTS3 (2024)
ITF11
Codice catastale
I553

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Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Wikidata
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • ISTAT — Italian national statistics (Elenco comuni italiani), via istat.it (official ISTAT code, province, region, NUTS3, codice catastale)
  • • ISTAT — Italian National Institute of Statistics — Elenco comuni italiani (CC BY 3.0 IT)