Culture of Piazza Armerina Culture of Piazza Armerina

The town is known to be part of so-called "Lombard communes" of Sicily, whose dialect (belonging to the group known as "cock-Sicilian") has little to do with the indigenous languages and much to do with those of the northern Piedmont, especially areas of Monferrato.Il fact can be explained historically have been destroyed the former town square - built by the Norman King Roger II of Sicily on a previous settlement greek-roman (perhaps Stalls / Pluto) - by King William I of Sicily in order to punish his rebellion led by Roger Sclavo, the illegitimate son of Count Simon Aleramo, which in practice had murdered the people araba.Successivamente it was rebuilt higher up the hill from William II Armerino and repopulated by people from the areas "Lombard" settentrionali.Il dialect has been studied among others by Remigio Roccella, which then draw up a vocabulary of spoken inPiazza Armerina but you can also remember the contributions of Litterio Villari.

About the Piedmontese origin (indeed "Monferrato") in Piazza Armerina may occur not only the use of cock-Sicilian dialect with other historical variously confirmed, but also some anecdotal analogy between a lemma and which talk about the legend, on the etymology of the name Monferrato (in the Piedmont "mònfrà"), tells how in 961, the then Earl Aleramo would ride his horse with a whole day to delineate the boundaries of the future of his estate (which will become Marquis) which would receive a reward by Otto for his services. On that day it seems that the horse lost a shoe and Aleramo the knight, having nothing better to address, he used, then and there, a brick found on the ground and, with this legacy to the base of his steed, in the manner of shoeing in order to resume his journey. In Piedmont the brick is usually called "world" and from there to "mònfrà (shod with brick) and then" Monferrato ", the step is short! But there is more, it appears that the origins of a particular Sicilian etymology indicates that the brick are the exclusive prerogative of Piazza Armerina and its surroundings: those places in the brick building is commonly called a "zucculettu" which, translated into Italian, may play more or less as "small base" here is the back of the horse's foot Aleramo and, somehow, re-confirm the origins of the Piazza Armerina Piedmont.

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