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Morro d'Oro
Comune
Comune di Morro d'Oro
Location of Morro d'Oro
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Coordinates: 42°40′N 13°55′E / 42.667°N 13.917°E / 42.667; 13.917
Country	Italy
Region	Abruzzo
Province	Teramo (TE)
Frazioni	Case di Bonaventura, Case Merluzzi, Acquasanta, Razzano, San Pietro, Torrenera, Sant'Antonio, Trapannara, Case Sacchetti, Capo le Coste, Case di Pasquale, Case Cavicchi, Piano Cesare, Cancrini, Colle di Mezzo, Case Romani, Propezzano, Colle della Croce, Pagliare Vecchia, Pagliare
Government
• Mayor	Romina Sulpizii (Uniti per Morro d'Oro)
Area
• Total	28 km (11 sq mi)
Elevation	210 m (690 ft)
Population
• Total	3,586
• Density	130/km (330/sq mi)
Demonym	Morresi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	64020
Dialing code	085
ISTAT code	067029
Patron saint	San Nicola da Myra
Saint day	6 December

Morro d'Oro is a town and comune in Teramo province in the Abruzzo region of eastern Italy.Morro d'Oro is an Italian town of 3 586 inhabitants in the province of Teramo in Abruzzo, part of the union of the Colline del Medio Vomano municipalities.

It is a small town in the province of Teramo, from which it is 28 km away, located between the Tordino and Vomano valleys. Its territory extends for 28.18 km²; the inhabitants at the census of 21 October 1991 were 3,015 units; at 31 December 1995 there were 3,190; a sign that the municipality, after a twenty-year phase of depopulation (from 3,215 in 1961 to 2,758 in 1981) is continuously growing in population.

All this thanks to its strategic location (12 km from the sea and 40 from the mountains) and its changed economic conditions: from an exclusively agricultural economy - and mainly sharecropping - to a more integrated agricultural-artisanal-industrial one. Therefore, its economy is based, on the one hand, on agriculture, but of an advanced type and on selected crops (vegetables and orchards), as well as traditional ones: cereals in general; on the other, on the tertiary sector (construction crafts and, to a lesser extent, trade); but there is also an adequate industrial development, which absorbs a workforce of about 300 units.

History

The origins of Morro d'Oro date back to the Middle Ages: probably linked to the era of the fortifications (VIII - X century); however, evidence of its existence is not available before a document of 1021, which speaks of a donation made by Adelberto De Aprutio in favor of the Monastery of Montecassino and in which the estate of Muro appears and there is mention of a Castello Veccio. Other documents from 1101 and 1128, in which the term Murum (or Morrum) appears, further testify to its existence.

In the 12th century the territory was given a fief to Trasmondo di Castelvecchio; but after 1200 also Morro entered the area of ​​influence of the Acquaviva, as, moreover, had happened, or happened later, for the other neighboring towns, from Atri to the Tronto river. In the following centuries the fortunes of Morro, of course, were identified with those of the Acquaviva family, under whose jurisdiction it remained until the early eighteenth century. Throughout 1807, the community of Morro was administratively aggregated to Notaresco; with the government of the King of Naples, Gioacchino Murat, in that year it was temporarily aggregated to Montepagano; however, already in 1808 it was made autonomous again, in principle in the current territorial configuration.

The toponym Morro d'Oro, whose origins, as we have seen, are indefinite (Murus, Murrum, Morrum, then Moro appears in 1567, Murro in 1601 and Morra in 1703) has its definitive name in the current one, right Royal Decree 13 December 1863, n. 1616 and on the basis of the Council resolution of October 18, which read as follows: "... considering that the Municipality for the fertility of the land has always been abundant, considering that from ancient times it has always been given the epithet of Morro d 'Oro he decided the added word should be written with the apostrophe ... ".

Monuments and places of interest

Abbey of Santa Maria di Propezzano: its existence is ascertained in the years between 930 and 960, but a consolidated tradition, not probative and with sometimes imaginative features, traces it back to 10 May 715 AD. It is an abbey complex in Romanesque-Gothic style, with the typical layout of Benedictine monasteries, perfectly preserved in the original structure, as even the few restorations to which it was subject were carried out with perfect adherence to the origin, including also the material used.

Church of SS. Salvatore and San Nicola, located in the capital: after recent recovery and restoration works traces of the first Romanesque church have come to light within the current reconstruction which dates back to 1331, the work of Gentile da Ripatransone. Inside the monument there are wooden altars from the 1500s and 1600s, as well as paintings by Ragazzini (from 1600) and a statue of the Madonna in terracotta from the Atrian school of 1500, now perfectly restored. In the underground part, through an archaeological path, the graves and grains pits discovered during the consolidation of the foundations of the central piles are visible and can be visited. The layout of the building is very similar to that of Propezzano (except for a small difference in the width of the lateral naves) and all the details of the columns and capitals are also identical. Convent of Sant'Antonio Abate, about 2 km west of the capital, a Romanesque church that no longer exists (only the main wall towards the convent, recovered by a private individual, remains; certain news of its existence dates back to 1260 and legend has it that it is was visited by St. Francis of Assisi, who was in Abruzzo at least three times, in 1215, in 1220 (or 1222) and in 1225. Definitely suppressed by order of Giuseppe Bonaparte and subsequently of Gioacchino Murat, both King of Naples, was not From recent studies , it appears that the first church, no longer existing today, was built by the Benedictines around the ninth century; the ground floor of the conventual part is contemporary and the cloister is the same size as that of Santa Maria of Propezzano, the first floor is probably an elevation that can be traced back to the expansion of the 13th century. Kept in neglect for about three centuries, it was discreetly recovered by the current owner, so that now it is possible to admire the original external structure and some internal parts.

References

1. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
2. All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute (Istat)

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