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a web site open to everybody, a door open to the world, that likes to let
Bronte be known to others and let our town's people meet and converse
with their countrymen living abroad.
Here we talk about Bronte, of its personages and of its history, of the many
monuments that enrich our city, of environment, traditions, economy but
and also, above all, we wish to talk about our countrymen scattered all
over the world.
We wait therefore, as we wait for your incitements, for your
suggestions, your writings, your new an old photos, your places, your
web sites or email address and also... your criticism... that, we hope, shall
be always constructive!
The site is directed to all the citizens of Bronte that still love their city,
but particularly to those that live out of Bronte, (emigrates,
descendants, children of brontesi etc.) that haven't forgotten
their place of origin and that sometime have heard their parents or their
forefathers talk about Bronte.
would like to be a meeting point, in which we could find ourselves together
again; a binder of the ideas of the brontese folks that stay out of our town:
of their writings, their photos, web sites, correspondences, products etc.
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The emigration from Sicily,
ever present
as an incurable sore in the body of our population, assumed
a mass phenomenon towards the middle of 1800.
During the epoch, the island population, with an extremely high
birthrate, by far superior to that of all of Italy, couldn't find in its
country any work or any possibility to ameliorate its poor
conditions of life. So started the emigration towards new countries.
Even the
government encouraged emigration, not being able to assure a job
to an ever growing population.
The principal foreign countries that, starting in 1882, accepted a part
of the Sicilian population in excess were Brazil,
Argentina, and United States.
When the emigration abroad was restricted, around 1921, many
Sicilians,
among which a lot from Bronte, found work and established themselves in
the provinces of the north of Italy.
After the war started again to go abroad: many laborers became miners in
the Belgium' coalmines, others continued to aliment the migratory flux towards the Americas and Australia.
In total 1.140.000 Sicilians left the
island between 1871 and 1950; 128.445 reached foreign countries from 1946
to 1954 and yet 35.511 in 1963, 19.520 in 1952.
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«Emigrate from
Bronte, every year, from 100 to 150 persons. In North America
there is a colony of people from Bronte that
have brought with them the homeland cult, instituting
three flourishing clubs, two dedicated to the philosopher
Nicolò Spedalieri,
one in Cleveland and the other in New York, another one is
dedicated to the
SS. Annunciated in New York.
The emigrates are about six thousands; the majority in North
America, the others in South America».
(Benedetto Radice,
Memorie Storiche di Bronte, 1926)
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This was, at the end of March 2008, the official statistic table of the
citizens of Bronte resident abroad and having right of vote, scattered in the
various world countries: |
| Nation |
male |
female |
total |
| Argentina |
226 |
248 |
474 |
| Australia |
38 |
26 |
64 |
| Austria |
3 |
2 |
5 |
| Belgium |
42 |
38 |
80 |
| Brazil |
20 |
10 |
30 |
| Canada |
4 |
3 |
7 |
| Denmark |
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3 |
3 |
| Finland |
3 |
1 |
4 |
| France |
52 |
33 |
85 |
| Germany |
1.002 |
719 |
1.721 |
| England |
11 |
7 |
18 |
| Grece |
2 |
4 |
6 |
| Luxembourg |
7 |
3 |
10 |
| Netherlands |
11 |
12 |
23 |
| Paraguay |
3 |
2 |
5 |
| Perù |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Romania |
1 |
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1 |
| Spain |
15 |
10 |
25 |
| Sweden |
2 |
2 |
4 |
| Switzerland |
359 |
259 |
618 |
| United States |
39 |
36 |
75 |
| Tunisia |
6 |
7 |
13 |
| Venezuela |
17 |
7 |
24 |
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Total |
1.865 |
1.434 |
3.299 |
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