Carpino

Infobox CityIT
official_name = Comune di Carpino
img_coa = Stemma_di_Carpino.jpg
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region = RegioneIT|sigla=PUG
province = ProvinciaIT (short form)|sigla=FG (FG)
mayor = Manzo Rocco since 29/May/2007
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elevation_footnotes =
elevation_m = 147
area_footnotes =
area_total_km2 = 82.49
population_footnotes =
population_as_of = 31/12/2003
population_total = 4642
pop_density_footnotes =
population_density_km2 = 56,3
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gentilic = Carpinesi
telephone = 0884
postalcode = 71010
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saint = Saint Cyril
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mapx = #expr:41 + 51 / 60.0
mapy = #expr:15 + 51 / 60.0
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native_name = Carpino
name = Carpino
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Carpino is a coastal town and comune of the Italian region of Puglia on the Gargano peninsula. Its name is linked to the rebirth of the traditional popular music of Gargano as an artistic value to preserve and study. The group "Cantori di Carpino" (Carpino Singers), by reinterpreting ancient tarantellas, enabled the development of a broadly articulated project regarding traditional popular music of southern Italy.

Located on a rise rich with well tended olive trees, Carpino is nicknamed "Città dell’olio" (City of Oil) because of its vocation in producing oil. Noteworthy are the archaeological site of the "grotte di Minutille" (the Minutille caves), the Church of the Holy Cross, the Church of Saint George and the Church of Saint Cyril.

History

The town is first mentioned in historical records in 1158, in a bull of pope Adrian IV, with which the abbey of Monte Sacro obtained privileges on the church of St. Peter e St. Mary near the "castellum capralis", a location identifiable as the municipality, as subsequently confirmed from historical documents.

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