Gragnano

Gragnano

Gragnano

Comune in Campania, Italy

For other uses, see Gragnano (disambiguation).

Gragnano, a hill town located between a mountain crest and the Amalfi Coast, is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in southern Italy's Campania region, located about 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Naples city.

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Gragnano borders the following municipalities: Agerola, Casola di Napoli, Castellammare di Stabia, Lettere, Pimonte, Ravello, Sant'Antonio Abate, Santa Maria la Carità, Scala.

In 1169 its name was added to the title of the bishopric of nearby Lettere, which was thus renamed Roman Catholic Diocese of Lettere-Gragnano, but Gragnano never had a co-cathedral and its title was dropped when the suppressed see was nominally restored as titular bishopric of Lettere.[3]

Pasta

Via Roma in Gragnano, circa 1900.

Gragnano is home of some of the best dried pasta in Italy.[4] In 2013, Gragnano pasta was designated a Protected Geographical Indication by the European Union.[5]

Gragnano's "main street was laid out expressly to capture the mountain breeze mixed with sea air back when pasta makers hung spaghetti on drying rods like laundry," according to a Forbes Life write up.[4] More recently heaters have been used to dry the pasta at low temperatures (approximately 50 °C (122 °F)) for two days and it is shaped with bronze to give it a rough texture, producing a pasta with a "nuttier aroma and chewier mouth feel."[4]

Notable locals

References

  1. [1]
    "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. [2]
    "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Titular See of Lettere, Italy".
  4. [4]
    Mimi Murphy Gragnano Pasta page 36 Forbes Life
  5. [5]
    "Italy's city that revolutionised pasta".
  6. [6]
    "Tito Vuolo". IMdB. Retrieved 17 March 2014.

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