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THE DISTRICTS

TOWARDS THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, THE TOWN HAS DIVIDED INTO NINE DISTRICTS : PORTELLA, CAMPODOGLIO, SANCTO PETRO, ECCLESIA, SOTTO LA ECCLESIA, PIACZA, SOTTO LA PIACZA, HOSPITALE AND GUITIA. AT THE END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY IN ADDITION TO THESE ONES ANOTHER TWO DISTRICS : CORTE AND PORTA CIMINO AND AT LAST : BORGONOVO IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. THERE WERE ALSO SOME AREAS LIKE ALLO’RTA OR INTIRLO’RTA OUTSIDE OF THE PORTELLA NEAR TO THE TOWER OF CAMPODOGLIO ON THE OTHER SIDE OF GUIZIA’S AREA. NOW LOST BECAUSE THE LANDSLIDES.

Panorama di Villa Santo Stefano del 1900

INSIDE THE PERIMETER OF THE CASTLE’S WALL THERE WERE ONLY HOMES AND FEW VEGETABLE GARDENS. IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THERE WAS A SURPRISING ACTIVITY IN ALL THE SIDES OF THE LIFE OF VILLA S.STEFANO.

SO THAT THE BUILDING INDUSTRY HAS DEVELOPED A GREAT DEAL, LIKE THE CONSTRUCTION OF BORGONOVO OR S. PIETRO AND CAMPODOGLIO WITH THE RESTORATION OF ANCIENT EDIFICES. IN THIS CENTURY BEGUN MANY IMPORTANT WORKS THAT NOWADAYS DISTINGUISH VILLA S. STEFANO : THE MAIN CHURCH, THE ELEGANT PALACE OF GIACOMO IORIO, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW HOSPITAL IN LATA ROAD AND THE CHURCH OF MADONNA DELLO SPIRITO SANTO OUTSIDE THE WALL OR THE CASTLE PALACE OF THE PRINCES COLONNA. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WAS TIME OF ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SLACKNESS. ONLY AT THE END OF THE CENTURY WITH THE SOPPRESSION OF THE BRIGANDAGE AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE NATIONAL POLICE STATIONS BEGUN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE UNFINISHED CHURCH OF S. PIETRO OR NEW HOMES ALONG S.SEBASTIANO’S ROAD. THE MAIN IMPORTANT OPERA WAS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW CEMETERY IN PLAIA’S AREA. INSIDE THE TOWN WERE INSTALLED THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING, THE STREET NUMBERS DERIVES FROM THE FIRST FAMILY NAMES OF THE TOWN LIKE : GENTILE, GALANTE,LEONINA, BOLOGNESE,CAFEGNA OR FROM NATURAL SITUATIONS LIKE S. SEBASTIANO, S. PIETRO, ROCCA, LATA,MALPASSO, GIARDINO OR PIANELLA.

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