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Church Of Madonna Of The Good Thief
Madonna del Ladro Buono ("Madonna of the Good Thief", in Sicilian language, Sicilian ''Madonna di lu Tribonu'' or ''Madonna di lu Latru Bonu'') is a Catholic church in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani. Description The little church, with an image of Mary's Pietà with Jesus taken down from the Cross, is located above the town waterworks at the same level as the second turn in the road leading to the top of Mount Bonifato. According to tradition, there was a thief living as a penitent in that place who nurtured veneration for the image. In a letter sent to Don Tommaso Papa in 1931, Francesco Maria Mirabella wrote that the legend of the Good Thief was an invention of Liborio Dia, a poet from Alcamo, and that "Tribonu" is an alteration of "Tribona" in the dialect of Alcamo. "Tribona" is a niche surmounting an altar or an aedicula.Carlo Cataldo, Accanto alle aquile: Il castello alcamese di Bonifato e la chiesa di S. Maria dell’Alto p.102-105, Palermo, Brotto, 1991. Professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcamo
Alcamo (; scn, Àrcamu, italic=no) is the fourth-largest town and commune of the Province of Trapani, Sicily, with a population of 44.925 inhabitants. It is on the borderline with the Metropolitan City of Palermo at a distance of about 50 kilometres from Palermo and Trapani. Nowadays the town territory includes an area of 130,79 square kilometres and is the second municipality as for population density in the province of Trapani, after Erice. Alcamo is bounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea on the north, Balestrate and Partinico on the east, Camporeale on the south and Calatafimi-Segesta and Castellammare del Golfo on the west. Its most important hamlet is Alcamo Marina at about 6 kilometres from the town centre. Together with other municipalities it takes part in the ''Associazione Città del Vino'', the movement ''Patto dei Sindaci'', ''Progetto Città dei Bambini'', ''Rete dei Comuni Solidali'' and ''Patto Territoriale Golfo di Castellammare''. Geography Territory Alcamo is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Trapani
Trapani ( it, Provincia di Trapani, scn, Pruvincia di Tràpani; officially ''Libero consorzio comunale di Trapani'') is a province in the autonomous island region of Sicily, southern Italy. Following the suppression of the Sicilian provinces, it was replaced in 2015 by the Free municipal consortium of Trapani. Its capital is the city of Trapani. It has an area of and a total population of 433,826 (2017). There are 25 comunes (Italian: ''comuni'') in the province (see Comuni of the Province of Trapani). History The area now covered by the province was occupied successively by the Carthaginians, Greeks and latterly by the Romans. The port of Trapani, first known as Drepana, then Drepanon, was inhabited by the Sicani and the Elymi becoming a prosperous Phoenician trading centre by the 8th century BC. It was taken by the Carthaginians in 260 BC and by the Romans in 240 BC, becoming a ''civitas romana'' until 440 AD when it was sacked by the Vandals, then by the Byzantines and ult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
