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Barrea
Barrea
Comune
	Comune di Barrea
	Location of Barrea
	Barrea Location of Barrea in Italy Barrea Barrea (Abruzzo)
	Coordinates: 41°45′25″N 13°59′36″E / 41.75694°N 13.99333°E
Country	Italy
Region	Abruzzo
Province	L'Aquila (AQ)
Government
• Mayor	Andrea Scarnecchia
Area
• Total	87.05 km2 (33.61 sq mi)
Elevation	1,060 m (3,480 ft)
Population (2005)
• Total	771
• Density	8.9/km2 (23/sq mi)
Demonym	Balsoranesi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	67052
Dialing code	0863
Patron saint	St. George Martyr
Saint day	april 23
Website	www.comune.balsorano.aq.it

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Barrea is a comune in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

It is located on the shore of the Lake of Barrea, a lake created after World War II due to the building of a dam on the River Sangro.

History

The comune was established in 1067 under the protectorate of the Duke of Spoleto. One side of the original, central castle was protected from invaders by natural means, utilizing the impassably steep slope of the mountain; two stone castle gates afforded other protection to the castle and the homes that were built within its walls, dug into the slides of the mountain and giving out through front entrances facing on narrow, twisting, steep stone alleys.

Its location surrounded by the Apennines would have prevented Barrea's development into an industrial area had not other economic obstacles also existed; historically, residents existed by tending small farms in plots on the mountainside, but Italy's major activity in agriculture ended with the arrival on Europe's shores of American grain. A major emigration took place after the earthquake of 1984, when many residents declined to return to the homes that were ruined in the tremor. Many of the homes have been bought by tourists, who enjoy Barrea's location on the brow of a mountainside, giving out over the Sangro valley, but there are fewer than 1,000 permanent inhabitants.

An earlier emigration in the early twentieth century helped to populate the large Italian-American community in Warren, Ohio. Reading tombstones in the Barrea cemetery is like reading a who's who of Warren Italian names.

Today, Barrea is at the center of the National Park of Abruzzo, a natural area rich in wildlife and recreation and lacking any aspect of urban commercialization. The village contains many monuments to its sufferings in World War II, when the Germans took it over and thus subjected it to Allied bombings. Perhaps the foremost village hero is Aldo DiLoreto, a captain in the Italian air medical corps, who organized resistance movements in the hills around Barrea. He was captured by a German patrol and was shot to death by an execution squad in Villeta Barrea. It is said he fell to his death saying "Long Live Italy."

Gallery

Lake of Barrea.
Church of the Purgatory.
An alley/street in the Old City.

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Links

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^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

[wikidata-16139ca327c50d72c40d8c5fd3abe706b989650e-v18-1] "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

[wikidata-6c4193b2686f905553042f4ae1ae4934aea078c8-v18-2] "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.

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 Today, Barrea is at the center of the [[National Park of Abruzzo]], a natural area rich in wildlife and recreation and lacking any aspect of urban commercialization. The village contains many monuments to its sufferings in World War II, when the Germans took it over and thus subjected it to Allied bombings.  Perhaps the foremost village hero is Aldo DiLoreto, a captain in the Italian air medical corps, who organized resistance movements in the hills around Barrea.  He was captured by a German patrol and was shot to death by an execution squad in Villeta Barrea. It is said he fell to his death saying "Long Live Italy."
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 Image:Il_lago_di_barrea.jpg|Lake of Barrea.
 Image:church_of_the_Purgatory.jpg|Church of the Purgatory.
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+Image:Side_street.JPG|An alley/street in the Old City.<br />
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+</gallery><br />
+[http://images.google.ca/images?q=barrea%20italy&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab= Google Images]<br />
+[http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?CreativeOn=1&adv=1&dtfr=&dtTo=&qt=barrea&creative=&lic=6&lic=1&hc=&selectdate=1&txtdtfr=&txtdtto=&size=0xFF&ot=1&ot=2&ot=4&ot=8&imgt=1&imgt=2&archive=1&chckarchive=1 Alamy stock photos]<br />
+[http://www.smugmug.com/search/index.mg?searchWords=barrea&searchType=global&x=0&y=0#photos<br /> Smugmug photo galleries]<br />
+==Links==
+===Maps===
+http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=barrea,+italy&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=38.638819,79.101563&ie=UTF8&z=11&iwloc=A<br />
+http://www.maplandia.com/italy/abruzzo/laquila/villetta-barrea/<br />
+http://www.traveljournals.net/explore/italy/map/m172986/barrea.html<br />
+===Government and General Info===
+http://www.comune.barrea.aq.it/index.asp<br />
+http://en.comuni-italiani.it/066/010/<br />
+===Weather===
+http://www.comune.barrea.aq.it/meteo.htm<br />
+http://en.comuni-italiani.it/066/010/meteo.html<br />
+===Tourism===
+http://www.andalucian-adventures.co.uk/photography-holidays/italy/abruzzo.aspx<br />
+http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Italy/Abruzzo/Barrea-155853/TravelGuide-Barrea.html<br />
+http://www.gditaly.com/italy/abruzzo/parks/barrea_lake.htm<br />
+====Accommodation====
+http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g1391870-Barrea_Abruzzo-Hotels.html<br />
+http://www.hotellagoverde.it/<br />
+http://www.solitalia.it/lodging/agriturismo/abruzzo/laquila/villettabarrea.htm<br />
+http://www.campingcompass.com/camping/italy/abruzzo/barrea<br />
+===Regional Info===
+http://www.vallisregia.it/home_en.htm<br />
+http://www.parcoabruzzo.it/<br />
+http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parco_nazionale_d'Abruzzo,_Lazio_e_Molise<br />
+http://www.hotellagoverde.it/EnVersion/en_national_park_of_abruzzi.htm<br />
+===Volunteer===
+http://www.parcoabruzzo.it/volontariato.html<br />
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