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Quarrata
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.
Quarrata is a comune or municipality in the province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 190 kilometres north of Florence and about 180 kilometers north of Pistoia. Quarrata is 15 kilometers far from Pistoia that is the Chief Town of the homonymous province to whom the municipality belongs. Quarrata has a population of 22.683 inhabitants and a surface of 46 square kilometers thus showing a population density of 493, 11 inhabitants per square kilometer. It rises 48 metres above the sea level. The municipality of Quarrata had a popolation of 21.020 inhabitants accordingly to the results of the national census made in 1991. The inhabitants are distributed in 7.938 families with an average of 2, 86 people per family.
Quarrata rises along the area comprised between the slopes of the Albano mountain and the middle part of the valley of the Ombrone river. The economy of the town is mainly based on industrial activities like the textile, confectionary, furniture and engineering industries and on a very valuable vine production. The place name reflected the Latin word quadrata with the meaning of rural lots. The town was quoted for the first time in an official document dating back to 998 with the name of Tizzana. After the collapse of the Roman Empire the territory of Quarrata became depopulated because of the spreading of the marshy phenomenon and of the continuous sieges, first by the Gothics and then by the Longbards.
Between IX-th and X-th centuries the feudal influence became more and stronger with the Cadolingi of Fucecchio and the Guidi Counts. In the same period also rose the first parishes that were parochial churches that formed the community of Quarrata. Between XI-th and XIII-th Quarrata experienced a great economic development promoted by a reclamation of its territory and a consequent population increase. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Quarrata was the most important centre of the surrounding communities with a very developed economy.
Presently, Quartu Sant'Elena experiences a sharp social, economic and population growth derivative of the strategic position of the locality and the high level of well-being and quality of life that is enjoyed with respect to other places of Italy.
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