Gragnano

Gragnano
Gragnano
Comune
	Comune di Gragnano
	Church of Santa Maria of the Assumption.
	Location of Gragnano
	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	80054
Dialing code	081
Patron saint	Saint Sebastian
Saint day	January 20
Website	Official website

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.

Gragnano borders the following municipalities:

Scala

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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

Gragnano is home of some of the best dried

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

Margherita Sarrocchi (ca. 1560 – 1617), an Italian poet and a supporter of the theories of Galileo Galilei
Tito Vuolo (1893–1962), actor, was born there.^[6]
Giuseppe Beotti (1912–1944), an Italian Catholic priest murdered by Nazi soldiers
Antonio Buscè (born 1975), an Italian former footballer with 547 club caps
Gennaro Scognamiglio (born 1987), an Italian footballer with over 400 club caps