Ferrandina

Ferrandina is a city and comune within the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian vicinity of Basilicata. In Italy, Ferrandina is well-known for producing the very best stage of excellent olive oil. Sun, stone, drought, silence and solitude: those are the five components that, in line with neighborhood folk traditions, create the perfect habitat for the olive tree. The towns roots go back as far as Magna Grecia, about 1000 BC. The unique name become Troilia even as its acropolis became known as Obelanon Troilia became constructed in reminiscence of the Asia Minor metropolis Troia through the Ancient Greeks. Ferrandina become named in honor of the father of Federico D'Aragona. In 1507 Ferdinando the Catholic, conferred the title of 'Civitas'.

Right after, the Dominicans, created an agricultural middle specialised inside the manufacturing of wool, rather valued in the Reign of Naples. In 1546 the Dominicans hooked up the monastery of Saint Dominic with the dome. Ferrandina became a part of the 1820 and 1860 rebellions. In March 1862, the brigant leader Carmine Crocco, faced and destroyed the Piemontesi troops. In 1921 the Fascist squads killed the lord mayor Nicola Montefinese. In September 1943, Ferrandina rose against the fascists. The farmers rebelled to expel and seize the land of the fascist landlords.