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San Marzano tomatoes originated in the small town of San Marzano sul Sarno, in the province of Salerno, near Naples, Italy, and were first grown in volcanic soil in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. One story goes that the first seed of this tomato came to Campania in 1770, as a gift from the Viceroyalty of Peru to the Kingdom of Naples , and that ...
Demetrio Capuzzimati (Albanian: Dhimiter Këpucmadhi) (c. 1480 – February 15, 1557, San Marzano di San Giuseppe [1]) was an Albanian [2] Stradiot captain in Apulia, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and was the son of a soldier who had fought with Scanderbeg. He was also the first Baron of San Marzano.
In 1808 San Marzano became a municipality of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Starting from 1820, the construction of the new road connecting Sarno and the Naples-Salerno consular road (in the Quarto district, in the territory of Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino), which crossed the territory of San Marzano, favored the development of the locality.
San Marzano may refer to: San Marzano tomato, Italian variety of tomatoes; San Marzano di San Giuseppe, Italian municipality in the Province of Taranto, Apulia; San Marzano Oliveto, Italian municipality in the Province of Asti, Piedmont; San Marzano sul Sarno, Italian municipality in the Province of Salerno, Campania
The Agro Nocerino-Sarnese or Agro Sarnese-Nocerino [1] is a geographical region of the Province of Salerno, in Campania in southern Italy; the river Sarno flows through it. It is a low-lying area bounded to the south by the Monti Lattari, to the east and north-east by the Monti Picentini and to the west by the plain of Vesuvius.
San Marzano Oliveto is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southeast of Turin and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Asti. San Marzano Oliveto is located in a panoramic position 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level.
San Marzano di San Giuseppe (Arbëreshë Albanian: Shën Marcani) is a town and comune in the Province of Taranto, in the Italian region of Apulia. Alongside Casalvecchio di Puglia and Chieuti, it is one of the Arbëreshë communities still existing in Apulia. The economy is largely based on the cultivation of olive trees and wine.
Born in Turin on March 20, 1830, Alessandro Asinari of San Marzano enrolled in the Turin military academy leaving it t the age of 18 with the rank of cavalry lieutenant.In 1848 he took part in the First Italian War of Independence. in which he distinguished himself particularly in the Battle of Santa Lucia and then took part in the Crimean War in which he was promoted to lieutenant.