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Crispiano's Geography

´The town of Crispiano is located in the middle of a series of hills, the best known are: Mount della Gravina (204 m), Mount dell'Angelo (242 m), Mount Specchia (211 m) and Mount Calvello ( 228 m). The highest peaks are located on the border with the territory of Martina Franca. This is Mount Scorace (276 m), Mount Papa Ciro (385 m), Mount Trazzonara (425 m). Crispiano is located geographically north of Taranto and is about 16 km from the capital..

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CRISPIANO‘S ECONOMY.                                            The prevailing element of Crispiano's economy is breeding, agriculture based on olive farming is prosperous. There are agritouristic companies and small craft companies for the production of olive oil. Crispiano is also called "The city of 100 farms" for the presence of many farms in the area.The Consortium of 100 Farms is located in Crispiano to represent the territory of the 100 farms

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CRISPIANO‘S ECONOMY.                                            The prevailing element of Crispiano's economy is breeding, agriculture based on olive farming is prosperous. There are agritouristic companies and small craft companies for the production of olive oil. Crispiano is also called "The city of 100 farms" for the presence of many farms in the area.The Consortium of 100 Farms is located in Crispiano to represent the territory of the 100 farms

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Crispiano is a small town located in Puglia in southern Italy.
Its cuisine is typically Mediterranean, often created with dairy products.
Now I will present some Crispianese dishes.
Mussels marinara
It is a dish with an intense and tasty aroma, excellent as an appetizer, accompanied by crunchy slices of toasted bread, as a first course, added to the sauce and served on spaghetti. Its preparation is simple, a few fresh ingredients for a classic recipe.

Broad beans and chicory
Soak the beans, drain and cook for three hours in salted water over low heat, clean and boil the chicory. Beat the beans, spinning the oil and kneading well with a wooden spoon: serve on a bed of chicory and sprinkled with raw olive oil.

Almond milk
It 'a cold infusion, prepared with almonds and sugar: after peeling almonds, grind with sugar and put everything in a towel. The tea towel should be infused for 6 hours. The cloth should be squeezed to recover the precious liquid, which is bottled and placed in the refrigerator.

Orecchiette with turnip tops and breadcrumbs
Clean and wash the turnip tops and boil them; boil the pasta first, then the turnips; brown the garlic in the oil adding anchovy and bay leaf: let the anchovy unpeeled. Fry the bread crumbs in olive oil, drain the pasta with the tops and season with the fried breadcrumbs, add hot pepper and serve.

Pettole
Create a very soft mass with flour, baking powder, water and salt and let rise for 120 minutes. Prepare a mixture with capers, tomatoes, pitted olives, chilli and onion that will be combined with the leavened mass. Form balls and fry them in hot oil: serve still hot.

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Crispiano is a little town in the south of Italy.
It is visited by ta lot of ourists because it has a lot of beautiful places to see.
Crispiano has got a suburb called "San Simone" in which every summer there's an important festival called "HOT PEPPER' S FESTIVAL ".This is possible thanks to our Apulia products.
On the 5th  August there is a Patronal  feast   in Cripiano, dedicated to the " MADONNA DELLA NEVE" .
It's  a big feast and in the streets there are a lot  of strange and colured lights.
Crispiano is also called :" the land  of  the one hundred farms" some of their names  are  Pilano and Russoli.
There is an entertaiment Park  called:" Parco delle querce".
There is a big swimming pool, a restaurant and an hotel.
Come and visit Crispiano ! Admire all the beauties  and what the land offers!
WRITTEN BY FRANCESCA, TANYA, ELIAS, MATTIA CONSERVA, GIOVANNI, PIERO

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Crispiano's architecture is very rich. The most important monuments of Crispiano are La Torre di Cacace, the Bosco delle Pianelle, and all the farmhouses around it, but particularly the Russoli masseria.
The territory of Crispiano is characterized by the famous "Grotte del Vallone" which are located in the inhabited center of the town.
Once the caves were inhabited by the first farmers and today they are the location of the Crispiano living nativity scene

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Brigantino's Carnival
In 1999, the Pro Loco of Crispiano, decided to realize an innovative idea, to link summer tourism and the gastronomic tradition of this town to fun and carnival talent. So it was that the old "Carnival is of the People", a traditional winter parade of carts that had cheered the streets of the town since 1979, became the "Summer Carnival of Fegatino", an event that includes parades of allegorical floats and masked groups. All this takes place in a whole week.

Pumpkin Festival and Yellow Red Tomato

The event revolves around the enhancement of two typical products of the territory that, in addition to having an incredible versatility in the kitchen, have undisputed beneficial properties.

the pumpkins exposed in the "guinness" area can win three prizes: the one for the largest pumpkin, the one for the pumpkin with the strangest form and the third for the smaller pumpkin.

Chili Festival

This important event for spicy food followers, takes place in San Simone, a small and characteristic hamlet of Crispiano.
An appointment with quality gastronomy, with good food and good wine all strictly farm-to-table

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Originally a small Messapian settlement invaded by the Spartans of Taranto  and subsequently subdued by the Romans.

During the Middle Ages the houses that gave origin to Crispiano, as well as those of Martina Franca, Grottaglie and Villa Castelli were included in the territory of the province of Taranto. Crispiano was invaded by  Saracens in the 10th century,it was owned by the Altavilla family in the 11th century and finally acquired in the 14th century by the Antoglietta family.

In the eighteenth century the Crispianese territory was characterized by fragmented patchwork settlements near the  farms

At the beginning of the nineteenth century the crispiano countryside was shelter of the priest Brigante don Ciro Annicchiarico  within the complex dynamics of struggle between brigandage and fortified farms.

In 1919 he obtained autonomy from Taranto, becoming an autonomous municipality. Before, it was a hamlet of Taranto.

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