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“HISTORY OF INSTITUTE“
LA NOSTRA SCUOLA:
Il nostro Istituto Professionale di Stato per
l’Industria e l’Artigianato I.P.S.I.A. “Orso
Mario Corbino” di Partinico è l’unico in un
territorio che abbraccia quasi cinquanta
chilometri di raggio (i più vicini sono ubicati a
Palermo ed a Trapani). La scuola, nata il
1978, grazie ad una politica seria e
costruttiva, ha registrato una continua
crescita della popolazione scolastica,
raggiungendo ai giorni nostri un numero di
iscritti che vanno oltre le novecento unità ed
attivando, seguendo le direttive del Progetto
“92”, gli indirizzi di studio: Meccanico –
Termico, Elettrico – Elettronico, Sistemi
energetici ed Abbigliamento e Moda.
Abbiamo anche corsi serali indirizzati a tutti
gli studenti lavoratori.
I docenti della nostra scuola sono circa 130.
OUR SCHOOL
Our Technical Institute of State for
Industry and Handicraft, I.P.S.I.A. "Orso
Mario Corbino" in Partinico, is the only
one in a territory of almost fifty
kilometres (the nearest institutes are in
Palermo and in Trapani).
The school, established in 1978, has
had a continuous increase of the school
population, today it counts a large
number of students that is over nine
hundred units.
Our school has activated, according to
the Plan "92," different courses of
studies: Mechanical - Thermical,
Electrical - Electronical, Energetic
Systems, Clothes and Fashion.
We have also an evening course which
is mostly attended by working students.
There are about 130 teachers.
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Il
bacino
d’utenza
comprende
numerosissimi
Comuni:
Partinico,
Borgetto, Montelepre, Giardinello, Grisì,
San Giuseppe Jato, San Cipirrello
(Comuni interni); Terrasini, Cinisi,
Trappeto e Balestrate come (Comuni
costieri), oltre ad allievi di Alcamo che fa
parte della provincia di Trapani.
La scuola da quattro anni, è stata
oggetto di ristrutturazione e si spera che
in un ambiente più vivibile e con meni
disagi la popolazione scolastica possa
fare quel salto di qualità che possa
ripagare gli enormi sacrifici fatti in questi
anni dagli operatori della nostra scuola.
Partinico è un Comune della Provincia
di Palermo con oltre trentacinquemila
abitanti ed è inserita in un territorio
delimitato da una catena di monti che
l’abbracciano a semicerchio;
Every year students and teachers of the
clothes and fashion course organizes a
fashion parade with the help of local
designers and stylists. This show
attracts many people not only from
Partinico but also from its surroundings.
Our students come from numerous
towns: Partinico, Borgetto, Montelepre,
Giardinello, Grisì, St. Giuseppe Jato, St.
Cipirrello, Carini (internal towns);
Terrasini,
Cinisi,
Trappeto
and
Balestrate (coastal towns), and also
from Alcamo which is in the district of
Trapani.
Partinico is a small town in the district of
Palermo with thirty-five thousand
inhabitants. It is situated in a territory
delimited from a mountain chain that
embraces the town in a semicircle;
these mountains decline to
the sea
in the Gulf of
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una breve pianura conduce questi monti
verso il mare coinvolgendo nella sua
figura geometrica anche il Golfo di
Castellammare.
Partinico
potrebbe
considerarsi un Comune costiero per la
sua vicinanza al mare, (circa cinque
chilometri) e per tale motivo gode di un
clima mediterraneo in cui l’estate è
influenzata
dalle
masse
d’aria
anticiclonica di provenienza sahariana
con climi caldi e temperati dalla
presenza delle acque del bacino idrico
Poma, mentre l’inverno è sempre mite
con leggeri piovaschi e temperature
medie intorno ai quindici gradi.
L’economia è prettamente agricola e le
culture fondamentali del nostro territorio
sono la vite, (fiore all’occhiello
dell’economia locale), gli agrumi, l’ulivo
ed il grano.
Castellammare.
Partinico can be considered a coastal
town for its proximity to the sea, (about
five kilometres), that's why it has got a
Mediterranean climate in which summer
Is hot, while winter is always mild with
light rains and middle temperatures of
about fifteen degrees.
The economy is mainly based on agriculture and the principal cultivations are
grapevine, citrus fruits, olive trees and
wheat.
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“Sicily: our region“
Sicilian flag
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“Sicily: our region“
Sicily with a total surface area of 25.460 sq. km, is the largest island in the
Mediterranean basin. Around it lies a number of smaller islands: to the north the
Aeolian islands and Ustica, to the West the Egadi, and to the south the Pelagie
islands and Pantelleria, making a total surface area of 25.708 sq. km. Sicily boasts
around 1.000 Km of coastline, mostly rocky in the north and sandy in the south.
Sicily is not only sea and sand, it is also mountains and woodlands. The landscape
is varied, prevalently mountains and hilly, but with an expanse of plains around
Catania and Palermo. In the eastern part of the island Mount Etna (about 3.330 m)
is Sicily's highest mountain, the whole of which is a protected area within a national
park. Still active, it is the biggest volcano in Europe. Etna is not an ordinary
mountain: it “lives” and changes its shapes every time the lava erupts, new cones,
grottos and slopes are formed.
Along the north coast, from east to west, lies a stretch of the Peloritani and the
Nebrodi and Madonie Mountains, some of their peaks reach 2.000 m.
Sicily has always been popular for its geographic position and particularly mild
climate.
The history of Sicily is fascinating. It has always been a crossroads for many people.
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The several dominations of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans, the
Byzantines, the Barbarians, the Arabs, the Normans, the Spaniards have left distinct
signs. In 1860 Garibaldi came and defeated the Bourbons, since that time Sicily has
belonged to Italy. Since 1946 it has been an autonomous region with particular and
special powers in the legislative and administrative field, but it remains part of the
Italian Republic.
If you come to Sicily, you must visit Agrigento, Segesta and Selinunte, where you
can visit the Greek temples. In Siracusa you can visit the famous Greek theatre, in
Piazza Armerina you can admire a beautiful Roman villa. Taormina is also the
symbol of the beauty of the island. In Palermo you can see the famous Cathedral,
Orto Botanico, the International Puppet Museum and a lot of other museums and
churches of different period.
Sicily traditions are often connected to religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter
and the Patron Saints’ days which are deeply felt.
Sicily is famous for a very original theatrical form “l’opera dei pupi” where it is
possible to see the exciting fights of French paladins, heroes of ancient times that
come to life in small theatres. The characteristic puppets are moved by strings or
wooden sticks by the “pupari” hidden behind the scene.
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The deepest popular spirit of the island is found in the objects of Sicilian handicraft:
embroidery, characteristic carpets, pottery, wrought iron, lava-stone handicraft,
wooden sculptures, coral inlaid work and finally the Sicilian cart.
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“PALERMO“
Politeama Theatre
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Massimo Theatre
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Palermo: The Cathedral
Agrigento: The temple of Concordia
Agrigento: The Temple of Dioscuri
Trapani: The Castle of Erice
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Erice
L’Etna
Taormina
L’Etna
Erice
Agrigento
Agrigento
Cefalù
Taormina
L’Etna
San Vito Lo Capo
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Palermo
Palermo
Palermo
Mondello
Monreale
Palermo
Monreale
Capo
Zafferano
Corleone
Monreale
Riserva
dello
Zingaro
Ficuzza
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“PARTINICO“
Partinico, one of the biggest towns of the inside area of Castellammare's gulf, rises
in the center of the wide "selva Partenium", at the feet of M. Cesarò. The name
probably derives from the "Parthenicum" of the "Itinerario Antonini", (215 d.C.),
which places it 12 miles far from the Segestan Thermae and 8 miles far from the
powerful Hykkara, which is today called Carini. It seems that its origins go back to
the Greek period. Thucydides, in fact, tells of some Segestan people, who in the V
century b.C., borrowed jewels and crockery from the "near cities of the Phoenicians
and of the Greeks" to show them to the Athenian ambassadors visiting their city.
However, the existence in the zone of an important settlement of Greek culture is
proved by finds coming from the area of "calatubo" even if this settlement never had
an important role, probably because it was placed between the Sican and the elym
settlements. It is also sure that by the mouth of the river S. Cataldo, there was a
commercial port of call for trades with the inner cities of Jato and Monte d' Oro
(close to the present Montelepre). During the V century b.C., it was involved in the
war between Segesta and Selinunte and was destroyed by Dionysius of Syracuse
between the IV and the III century. During the expedition against the Phoenician
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punic cities, Parthenicum was subjected by Pyrrhus in 270 and in 260 b.C., after the
punic war, it was rebuilt by the Romans, who used the commercial port of call again.
With the barbaric devastations, which took place after the fall of the roman empire,
all the traces of the city of Partinico get lost. We find again in the Middle Ages the
fertile lands of Partinico, which are inhabited by muslim populations. AL Edrisi in its
"book of Roger", talkes about it as "a beautiful country, pleasant, plane, nice and full
of amenities" where they cultivated cotton and hinnah, a plant from which a coloring
substance was obtained.
Even if its position was not the present one, Partinico in the Middle Ages was a wellknown place: AL Mugaddasi, in one of his works of 998 describes it this way:
"Bartniq, where a lot of hinnah is cultivated"; in some diplomas of the XII and XIII
centuries, when the plain of Partinico began to be abandoned by the population and
started to lose importance, it was called Parthenico. The repopulation starts again in
the XIV century thanks to the Cistercian Fathers of "S. Maria di Altofonte", who had
the jurisdiction of the "castrum" and of the feud. They reclaimed the territory cutting
the surrounding forest and encouraging the construction of an inhabited nucleus,
making the agriculture reflourish with the cultivation of the grapes and the sugar
cane. Afterwards the village becomes bigger, first, in the XVII and in the XVIII
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century, with the construction of holiday houses for the noble people of Palermo
from where they could watch the agricultural activities of their estates, and, from the
XIX century onwards, thanks to the flourishing productive and commercial activities,
which have stimulated the demographic and urban expansion of the country. The
public square "Duomo", where you can find a graceful fountain of the late baroque
period (1716) called of the "ottocannoli", shows the Main church, built up in the 1777
on the previous system of the XVI century church, whose neo-classical facade was
rebuilt in 1960. You may find some interesting works, among which the "Assunta", a
painting of Antonino Spatafora called "il panormita", realised in 1579, and other four
XVII century paintings of Lombardic school: "S. Maddalena", "S. Rosalia in estasi",
"S. Agata" and "S. Caterina". In front of it, you can visit the civic museum, the picture
gallery (with numerous works of local artists), and the town library. The last one has
got a remarkable collection composed by approximately 10,000 volumes (1800 of
which coming from the library of the Capuchin Fathers) of the XV, XVI and XVII
centuries, manuscripts of the XVII and the XVIII centuries, archaeological
documents coming from the territory of Partinico and various objects of the farmer
civilization. We can’t miss to visit the church of S. Leonardo, in Corso dei Mille, built
up in 1634, enriched on the outside by a big bell tower, whose spire is covered
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by majolicas, representing some saints' life. In the inside you can admire the XVII
century "Ascesa di S. Agostino" very valuable painting of Pietro Novelli, in which the
typical composition of the baroque painting technique is skillfully blent to an
executive one, which reinterprets, through the wise use of light and color, the
Tuscany painting of the "Rinascimento". Another remarkable painting is the
"Adorazione dei Magi" (the adoration of the Magi), of the XVIII century. Always in
Corso dei Mille you can find the Carmelo church, of the XVII century. The facade of
the building, which was rebuilt in different ages, has a classic trace with the
tympanum decorated by festoons and supported by four columns with corinthian
capitals. The inside, enriched by stuccoes, is precious for its works and appears
majestic and rich. There are some paintings of Vincenzo Manno like the "Madonna
del Carmelo", realized in 1819, which is particularly admired for its beautiful lights
and colors. Even the small church of S. Maria degli Angeli, built up in the 1617,
keeps some precious works. Remarkable is the painting of the "Madonna coi Santi
Francesco, Scolastica and Rosalia", placed in the main altar. The painting, realized
by Giuseppe Salerno in 1630, is perhaps the most valuable work, which is in
Partinico. The church of S. Giuseppe was rebuilt in the present structures in 1737
and enriched in 1780 by a beautiful baroque bell tower.
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In its inside you can find six XVII century paintings of A. Manno representing
Episodes of the Saint's life. Along the state streat for Alcamo, approximately one
kilometer and half far from the town, you can pass through Valguarnera, an ancient
village founded in the XVI century, and of which now only few rural houses with
stables and an elegant and evocative recently restored XVII century fountain
remain.
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The Sicilian Cart (Carrettu) was characterisitically drawn by a donkey or a mule.
During an interesting lecture at the Museo di Nunzio Bruno, he explained how the
location of many of the roadside inns had been determined by the distance that a
donkey could pull a loaded carrettu in one day, before having to rest. He also
explained that the carts with a base paint color of red were from Palermo whereas in
Catania they used a base coat of yellow. During an interesting lecture about the
Sicilian Carrettu he demonstrated how the carritteri (the cart driver) shifted the
balance of a loaded carrettu so that the donkey could more easily pull it as they
travelled up and down hill. Nowadays the carrettu is a show piece and is usually
drawn by a horse as in this picture.
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Sicilian folklore
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Sicilian cannoli
Pasta con sarde
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Sfincione
Cassata siciliana
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• Caponata, a tasty salad made with eggplant (aubergines), olives, capers and
celery, makes a great appetizer. There is also an artichoke-based version of this
traditional dish, though you're less likely to find it in most restaurants. • Sfincione is
a local form of pizza made with tomatoes, onions and (sometimes) anchovies.
Prepared on a thick bread and more likely found in a bakery than in a pizzeria,
sfincione is good as a snack or appetizer.
• Panella is a thin paste made of crushed or powdered chickpeas and served fried. •
Maccu is a creamy chickpeas soup. • Crocché (croquet) are fried potato dumplings
made with cheese, parsley and eggs.
• Arancine are fried rice balls stuffed with meat or cheese.
Sicily is renowned for its seafood. Grilled swordfish is popular. Smaller fish,
especially snapper, is sometimes prepared in a vinegar and sugar sauce. • Seppia
(cuttlefish) is served in its own black sauce with pasta. Another Sicilian seafood dish
made with pasta is pasta con finocchio e sarde (fennel with sardines).
Meat dishes are always popular. Many are traditionally made with lamb or goat.
Best known outside Sicily is vitello alla marsala (veal marsala), one of many
regional meat specialties. Chicken "alla marsala" can be prepared using a similar
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recipe and method. • Milza (veal spleen) sandwiches are a bit "native" for
most tastes, and loaded with cholesterol, but delicious anyway.
• Sicilian desserts are superlative. • Cannoli are tubular crusts with creamy ricotta
and sugar filling. If they taste a little different from the ones you've had outside Italy,
that's because the ricotta here is made from sheep's milk. • Cassata is a rich,
sugary cake filled with the same delicious filling. • Frutta di Martorana (or pasta
reale) are almond marzipan pastries colored and shaped to resemble real fruit.
• Sicilian gelato (ice cream) is excellent. In fact, it is possible that ice cream was
invented in Sicily during Roman times, when a relay of runners would bring snow
down from Mount Etna to be flavored and served to wealthy patricians. You'll find
flavors ranging from pistachio and hazelnut (nocciola) to jasmine (gelsomino) to
mulberry (gelsi) to strawberry (fragola) and rum (zuppa inglese). • Granita is
sweetened crushed ice made in Summer and flavored with lemons or strawberries.
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