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Capoterra
Italy, officially the Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana, is a Southern European country comprising of the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it lo Stivale, the boot or, due to its prevalent peninsular geographical nature, la Penisola, the Peninsula.
Capoterra is one of the Sardinian town councils that, in the last 10 years, had one of the highest population increases in the island and a considerable transformation of town planning. Now it is identified by a set of inhabited settlements distributed in three different localities, about five kilometers apart. Capoterra was part of the Curatoria of Nora and with the decline of this town it became the chief town of the Curatoria, giving rise to the historical region just called Caputerra that extended from the Cagliari Pond as far as Capo Pula.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the land of Capoterra saw the arrival of new monks who were looking for quiet places to pray. In 1615, the Girolamiti friars had built the country church of S. Girolamo that then became seat of the presbitery, suppressed in 1867. The Minor Conventuali friars took possession, around 1640, of the St. Barbara temple, giving up to the archbishop of Cagliari the beautiful church of S. Maria di Uta that was no longer suitable for meditation and prayer.
Since 1951 until today, Capoterra has changed in a radical way. In these 45 years there has been a social and economic transformation so deep that several studies of demographic problems have been taken aback. Since 1951 until today, the percentage variation of the demographic increase has been 34.6 percent more, one of the highest in the island, second only at Quartu in the Cagliari district. The reasons of this powerful growth are the strong immigration of people from Cagliari and other nearby towns who chose Capoterra as a place of residence.
Today, therefore, the town council of Capoterra can be defined an urban centre with a polymorph expansion and very heterogeneous in its human composition.
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