OUR TOWN: GRAGNANO

Our TownA.DI MARTINO, V.GRIMALDI, G.MONACELLI, G.DI LIETRO, G.DE ROSA.

WELCOME TO GRAGNANO!Gragnano is a little town in province of Naples in Campania. It has got more than 31 thousands inhabitants, it is well known for its pasta and wine.

Gragnano, the European capital of pasta

Gragnano is the European capital of pasta and it has been awarded with PGI (Protected Geographical Indication). The production of pasta started at the end of the XVI century. During the XIX century, the most important pasta factories were in Gragnano. In that period, the Gragnanesi – that is the name of Gragnano inhabitants- were the best exporters of pasta in the world. The pasta factories laid out the pasta in the streets to dry out. The two World Wars caused a crisis in the production and in 1980 the number of pasta factories decreased. There are five pasta factories still active today.

The Oschi population was the first who settled in this territory, but the first urban nucleus was born in the 89 B.C. when the consul Silla

arrived to placate the rebellion in the near city of Stabiae. The rebels escaped and they arrived to a village, which was called "Granianum", after the name from the gens “Graia". During the Barbaric invasions,

Gragnano lived a terrible condition and in the X century, the town was annexed to the Republic of Amalfi. With the collapse of the kingdom

of the Two Sicilies, Gragnano became part of Italy.

Gragnano: history

Gragnano: geography

Gragnano is surrounded by the Lattari montains and it's situated on the Sorrentina peninsula .It's made up by seven fractions.

Gragnano borders on Castellammare di Stabia, Agerola, Santa Maria la Carità, Casola di Napoli and Pimonte. Gragnano has got

a Mediterranean climate, infact this particular type of climate allows the growing of wheat fields.

Art Buildings in Gragnano

Corpus Domini War Memorial San Michele’s ChurchCorpus Domini is the most important

church in Gragnano. It was built in 1571, it is a baroque and renaissance church.

This is a monument which remembers the victims of the First World War.

This is a little and very old church.