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IMAGO ITALIAE 1950
PIZZOLI
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Region
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ABRUZZI |
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Latidude |
42° 25' 59" 16 N |
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Province |
L' AQUILA |
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Longitude |
13° 18' 45" 36 E |
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Town |
PIZZOLI |
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FUSE |
32 |
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ZIP code |
67017 |
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UTM X |
854759 |
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Dialling code |
0862 |
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UTM Y |
4706663 |
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WWW locator |
JN62PK
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UTC |
+1 |
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Seismic classification Zone 1: high seismicity, PGA over
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Pizzoli is located in the Aterno’s valley on the south side of the mount Marine (1465 m),
north-west of the town of L’Aquila, close to the old city of Amiternum. It’s about 15 Km
far from the regional chief town, at 738 m. a.s.l. and is part of "Amitermina " Mountain
Community, zone A.
The municipality of Pizzoli extends for some 56 square Km and its territory is located
for about 50% inside the National Park "Gran Sasso - Monti della Laga".
At 31/03/2012, 4063 people live there: population is increasing and building development is continuous.
Foto cortesia di: Editori Sabatini Amedeo, Sette Tullio e da archivio personale.
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In summer time the number of tourists goes over 6000. The presence of a lot of sheep and
cow farms permits a considerable production of a typical, well known cheese. Remarkable is
also pigeons breeding. Handicraft is almost completely disappeared: the most requests for
wood and iron handicraft, for furniture production and restoration come from Rome.
The presence of strong ascendant draughts and the closeness (8 Km) to the Preturo Airport
(IATA QAQ) permits to fly with gliders. Once a year, in that airport, there’s an important
plane meeting with acrobatic exhibitions of civil pilots and military patrols coming from
lot of countries.
Picture from A.M. site, P.A.N. site, Air Club site and from personal archive.
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The Castle ‘Dragonetti de Torres’ is a square
plan building with angular sentry boxes.
Pierre Larbitre renovated it in 17th century
and incorporated a Middle Ages tower.
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Between Pizzoli and Preturo and S.Vittorino
(42° 23' N,13° 19' E, 682 m. a.s.l.) is located
one of three Italian geomagnetic observatories
of the National Institute of Geo-physics and
Volcanos Sciences. I.N.G.V.
The nature of the ground and the four
not-magnetic buildings permit absolute
measures of magnetic declination F,
inclination and intensity. It’s possible also to
measure and register automatically components
H-D-Z, F-H-D and so on. The observatory has
moreover a proton-precession magnetometer, a
nuclear-precession magnetometer and a
ring-core magnetometer, realized by N.I.G.
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Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Istituto
Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare.
The Gran Sasso Laboratories are located beside the Gran Sasso Tunnel
(10.4 km long) on the highway connecting Teramo to Rome, at about 6 km from
the west entrance, at 963 m over the sea level and the maximum thickness of
the rock overburden is 1400 m,
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From a report of the Italian Forest Rangers 06/08/01:
At 4,30 PM the pine forest over Pizzoli begins to catch fire. The fire destroys some 170 hectares
of the pine forest between the
‘Fosso del Buco’ and the ‘Fosso di S. Stefano’.
A beautiful pine forest, that was the north view of the town, is now a bad panorama:
the wind brings stink and ash, the rain brings debris down in the town’s roads and we live
with the nightmare of possible landslides.
Tough the Firemen and the Forest Rangers used also some airplanes in order to put off the
fire, hydro-geological, economic damages have been serious and we will need lot of money
and time to restore everything.
It happened in Pizzoli unexpectedly. WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR PINE FOREST, THINK OF PIZZOLI.
LAST UPDATE 26/04/2012
THANKs FOR TRASLATION IK6CAC
