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Seaquake
21 December 1899
Acitrezza
– On December 21st of
1899 a seaquake of great proportion took place in
Acitrezza.
The fishermen had to pull their boats on the shore, the wind blowed
strongly and the waves got so high to fear all citizien. The
tremendous impact of the waves which broke up on the Lachea island and
the Faraglioni, sounded like a treathening voice which made everybody
realize how bad the
weather was like.The fishermen were worried about their boats, some
women cried, others prayed. But the sea motion was increasing; it did
not know anything about the suffering that it was bringing.
Sea
began to invade the houses, someone tried to save his own things,
furnitures and animals, but the sea seemed unstoppable. There was
someone who put masses in front of the doors of his own house- to try
to avoid the sea invasion, but it was all useless: the water went
through anyway, without even knocking, taking them with it. The waves
had destroyed the lands next to the sea, carried away two boats; it
rained heavy, it seemed the end of all. But it couldn’t last forever,
the fishermen knew it: “buon tempo e malo tempo non dura tutto il
tempo”. the waves began to get smaller while people was already
thinking about the reconstructions.
Freely inspired to the
story of seaquake of Father De Maria.
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Picture Francesco
Maugeri
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The storm of 5th January of 1985
The big waves came from the
Island and the Faraglioni; the sea was getting bigger transporting the boats of the fishermen
on the Via Marina. A coating of white foam, it covered the coast of
“urnazza”, it
was all unreal, beautiful and frightful. The waves smashed in
the veranda of a restaurant situated in front of the sea. Other
damages occurred to the boats and things, the marine water
covered part of Acitrezza creating a lot of apprehension, but also this
terrible storm, it was going down fastly.
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Earthquake
11th January 1693
It
was on January 11th of 1693, when a tremendous
earthquake took place all over the oriental Sicily. Acitrezza
had lot of damages: the church of S.Joseph and many other
buildings fell down completely. After that the shakes finished
there were 17 people dead. The catastrophic event was so bad
that people who survived remained deeply impressed. Anyway, the
fear did not prevent the “trezzoti”, to start again to live,
rebuilding the destroyed houses. To rebuilt some houses, pieces
of the destroyed church of S.Joseph were used.
People dead:
1) Didaco Spada
2) Anzonia Spada
3) Maria Cantarella
4) Anna Viscuso
5) Rosa Viscuso
6) Angela Sacco
7) Anna Sacco
8) Agata Sacco
9) Maria Scugo
10) Venerando Scugo
11) Piero Puglisi
12) Carmine Grillo
13) Rosa Cacciola
14) Agata Aquino
15) Anna Aquino
16) Senzia Tammataro
17) Antonia Cunsolo
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