History
Corigliano's origins would be reported at the time of the incursion of Arab 977 by the emir of Palermo , to Quasim , when some residents of Land of Aghios Mavros (San Mauro, near the present village of Cantinella) moved to higher places, leading to the development of small village of Corellianum (whose name refers to a farm of Corelli ") on the hill named after centuries LOCK (name derived from the concentration in the area of \u200b\u200ba large number of sawyers: The name was later adapted into Italian in the form "Serratore).
After the Norman conquest to is attributed to Robert Guiscard in 1073 the foundation of a castle , with an adjacent church of San Pietro . The city gradually spread around the castle and the churches "Santoro" and "Santa Maria".
Another view of the Old City of Corigliano
During XIV century there was a successful Jewish community and location "hanger" was built the Franciscan monastery . In 1276 the city arrived at about 2700 inhabitants. In the fourteenth century was under the rule of Sangineto to switch accounts as a result of Sanseverino. An arrest of development occurred in the fifteenth century , due to the continuous state of war between Angevin and Aragonese . In 1532 the number of population had grown to almost 4,000 and in 1538 the city managed to repel the attack of the pirate Barbarossa buck.
Sanseverino I kept the domain up until his death last Corigliano Sanseverino branch of Tricarico, the prodigal Bernardino Nicholas, Prince of Bisignano. In 1616 to pay off debts left by Sanseverino, the government ordered the sale of its assets among these feudal and Corigliano, which was purchased by St. Augustine and John Philip Saluzzo, wealthy financiers engaged in economic activities of the Kingdom of Naples. After a few steps to the hereditary rule was consolidated in the hands of Giacomo Saluzzo progressively, president of the Royal House of Sommaria , which dispose of the estate in favor of his son Augustine. These, having endured a long siege at the Castle and its rejection of the republican forces of the Duke of Guise (1647-48), received on 8 May 1649 the title of Duke of Corigliano by Philip IV of Spain.
During the seventeenth century Saluzzo failed to stop the gradual economic decline: many of the lands of the plain had been abandoned and had become a swamp, causing an accentuation of malaria, to which was added an epidemic of fever in 1656 . In
eighteenth century there was an improvement of conditions, thanks to the reclamation works undertaken by the Dukes and the production of licorice . The population reached the figure of 6,800 in 1743 and the city had grown with new neighborhoods outside the walls ("Stepped St. Anthony and St. Francis"). The Saluzzo
alienated their property coriglianesi in 1828 to Baron Joseph Partner (1780-1834), who deftly rearranged in their hands and his heirs Louis (1823-1872) and Francesco (1848-1925), the power statement that it was the Dukes.
Between 1814 and 1951 inhabitants grew from just over of 8,000 to about 21,000, the development is due to land reform and reclamation of the plains, where vast implanting citrus. Grew considerably different fractions, some of which were developed as tourist resorts Plan (Caruso).
In 1863 Corigliano took the name "Corigliano Calabro" to avoid confusion with Corigliano d'Otranto .