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((More citations needed|date=May 2022))((Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Orsara di Puglia
| official_name       = Comune di Orsara di Puglia
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| coordinates         = ((coord|41|17|N|15|16|E|display=inline,title))
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| region              = ((flag|Apulia))
| province            = [[Province of Foggia|Foggia]] (FG)
| frazioni            = Giardinetto, Torre Guevara
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| area_total_km2      = 82
| population_footnotes = <ref name="istat">All demographics and other statistics from the Italian statistical institute ([[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|Istat]])</ref>
| population_total    = 3268
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| population_demonym  = Orsarese
| elevation_footnotes = <ref>((cite web|url=https://www.tuttitalia.it/puglia/18-orsara-di-puglia/|title=Orsara di Puglia|website=Tuttitalia))</ref>
| elevation_m         = 635
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| saint               = S. Michele Arcangelo
| day                 = September 29 and May 8
| postal_code         = 71027
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))
'''Orsara di Puglia''' is a small town and ''[[comune]]'' in the [[province of Foggia]], [[Apulia]], southern [[Italy]].
 
Named as ''Orsara Dauno-Irpina'' between 1861 and 1884, the town was part of the [[province of Avellino]] until 1927.<ref name="idi">((cite book|title=I Dauni-Irpini|trans-title=The Daunians-Hirpini|publisher=Generoso Procaccini|location=Naples|date=1990|language=Italian))</ref>

== History ==
The origins of Orsara date back to antiquity, as can be deduced from some archaeological findings that attest to the contacts with the [[Osci]] and the [[Irpinia|Irpini]]. In Roman times it was affected by the [[Second Punic War]] while the Via Traiana, a variant of the more ancient [[Via Appia]], passed along the course of the Sannoro stream.

In the [[8th century]], a community of [[Basilian monks]] settled there, dedicated to the cult of the [[Michael (archangel)|archangel Michael]], who was [[Veneration|venerated]] in the cave that today takes his name. In the Middle Ages the town, named ''Castrum Ursariae,'' was equipped with walls, which protected it from foreign incursions.<ref name="idi" /> During Norman times, the court of Ripalonga<ref>((cite book |author=Nicola Flammia |title=Storia della città di Ariano |pages=114–119 |date=1893 |editor=Tipografia Marino |location=[[Ariano Irpino|Ariano di Puglia]]))</ref> were in defense of the [[Via Francigena]].<ref>((cite web |url=http://www2.comune.orsaradipuglia.fg.it/cms/cms_art.php?idart=96 |title=Strada Traiana |website=Comune di Orsara di Puglia |access-date=1 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118122516/http://www.comune.orsaradipuglia.fg.it/cms/cms_art.php?idart=96 |archive-date=18 January 2018))</ref> The knights of [[Order of Calatrava|Calavera]] settled here during the mid 1200s and early 1300s.

=== Symbol ===

The coat of arms of the Municipality of Orsara di Puglia was granted by decree of the [[President of Italy|President of the Republic]] on 8 March 2006.<ref>((cite web |url=http://presidenza.governo.it/onorificenze_araldica/araldica/emblemi/2006/comuni/Orsara_puglia.html |title= Orsara di Puglia (Foggia) D.P.R. 08.03.2006 concessione di stemma e gonfalone |access-date= 1 May 2022 ))</ref>

((Blockquote|text="In blue, to the bear placed on the left , accompanied by his cub, faced, both in black, upright and with the left paw raised, supported by the golden plain , all trained by the oak of green, whipped to the natural, nodrita in the plain. Exterior ornaments from the Municipality. "))

== Demographics ==
=== Dialect & Language ===
Alongside the [[Italian language]], the [[Daunians|Dauno]]-[[Irpinian dialect|Irpino]] dialect is also spoken in the commune.

=== Religion ===
Like most of Italy, the commune is largely [[Catholic]]. However there has been a large [[Waldensian]] presence, perhaps from [[Occitan people]] and [[Americans|American]] immigrants since 1900. A Waldensian church in the Saint Nicola [[parish]] was opened in 1934.

== Economy ==
The economy is essentially based on [[agriculture]], with crops of [[wheat]], [[Vicia faba|broad beans]], [[maize]] and [[Helianthus|sunflowers]]; there are [[poultry]], sheep and goat farms. In recent years, food and [[Enotourism|wine tourism]] has had a strong boost, sealed by the recognition as a [[Slow Food]] city in 2007.

== Places of interest ==

* Parish church of San Nicola, dating back to the 16th century: it preserves a wooden statue of the ''Madonna della Neve'', made in 1624 by the [[Neapolitan language|Neapolitan]] sculptor Aniello Stellato.
* Church of [[Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major|Santa Maria della Neve]], built in the 17th century on an older building
* Abbey of Sant'Angelo or dell'Annunziata, built between the 8th and 11th centuries in Byzantine style and originally the monastery of Santi Nicandro and Marciano
* Convent of San Domenico, from the 11th century
* Grotta di San Michele Arcangelo, a pilgrimage destination from the 8th century
* Fountain of the Angel
* Fontana Nuova, (16th century)
* Baronial Palace, from the 13th century, with a tower with arched single lancet windows. It hosted the knights of [[Calatrava Knights|Calatrava]] and later the Guevara family, who were lords of Orsara.
* Torre Guevara, built in the second half of the 17th century by Duke Guevara di Bovino. In the early 18th century it was the hunting residence of [[Charles III, Duke of Bourbon|Charles III of Bourbon]].

== Festivals ==
The following are festivals celebrated in the town:

* 8 May - anniversary of the apparition of St. Michael the Archangel;
* Penultimate Sunday of June - wine festival;
* Last week of July / Before August - High Specialization Jazz Festival and Seminars "Orsara Jazz Festival & Orsara Jazz Summer Camp" which has been held since 1990;
* 5 August - feast of the [[Madonna della Neve]];
* 29 September - feast of St. Michael the Archangel;
* November 1 - ''fuoc acost and cocc 'priatorj''  According to tradition, the souls of [[Purgatory]] return to earth on the evening of All Saints, therefore the people of Orsara decorate the streets of the town with pumpkins, which symbolize souls ( ''cocce priatorje'' ), and light bonfires of dry branches of broom (''fuoc acost'', from the Greek akostòi, scattered), to console them. The typical dessert, common to many southern towns (cooked wheat mixed with pomegranate grains and chopped walnuts and seasoned with vincotto) has the original name ''musc'tagl ''' , perhaps from the French ''mouche taille'' .

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* [http://www.comune.orsaradipuglia.fg.it Official website]

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