Loconia
Italian village and hamlet of Canosa di Puglia municipality
Loconia is a southern Italian village and the only hamlet (frazione) of Canosa di Puglia, a municipality in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia. As of 2009 its population was of 82.
History
The village is a rural planned community, realized during Fascism in early 1930s, and named after the river Locone.
Geography
Loconia lies near the rivers Ofanto and Locone, nearby the borders of Apulia with Basilicata. It is crossed by the national highway SS93 and is 14 km far from Canosa, 17 from Minervino Murge, 18 from Cerignola, and 18 from Lavello. Around the village there are some rural localities (Cefalicchio, Crocifisso, Galere, Posta Piana, Socialisti), named after some ancient farmhouses (masserie).
Events
Patronal feast of St. Anthony of Padua, in the second sunday of August.
Sagra of Percoca Peach, in the second saturday of August.
“Loconia” enters the record as italian village and hamlet of Canosa di Puglia municipality. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Loconia, Italian and village can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 28, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q2566806. Authority coordinates are 41.159, 15.939. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.
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This entry incorporates text from “Loconia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.