Sperlinga

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Sperlinga
Comune
Comune di Sperlinga
Location of Sperlinga
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	94010
Dialing code	0935
Website	comune.sperlinga.en.it

Sperlinga is a comune in the province of Enna, in the central part of the island of Sicily, in southern Italy. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").^[3]

Geography

Sperlinga is at about 750 m above sea level, on a hill on the southern slopes of the

At the end of 2014 the population was 819 people, in 344 families.[2]

History

The village is first mentioned (as "Sperlingua") in a

Sperlinga reputedly did not participate in the Sicilian Vespers, the bloody uprising against the Angevin French rulers of Sicily in 1282, and may have offered them protection. An inscription over a door of the castle formerly read quod Siculis placuit sola Sperlinga negavit,^[5] or roughly "what pleased the Sicilians, only Sperlinga denied".

From about 1360 Sperlinga was held by the

The principal economic activities of Sperlinga are agriculture and animal husbandry.^[1]

References

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