Pietrosella

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Pietrosella
Commune
The parish church of Sainte-Monique
Location of Pietrosella
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Coordinates: 41°50′15″N 8°50′48″E / 41.8375°N 8.8467°E / 41.8375; 8.8467
Country	France
Region	Corsica
Department	Corse-du-Sud
Arrondissement	Ajaccio
Canton	Taravo-Ornano
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Baptiste Luccioni[1]
Area 1	35.23 km2 (13.60 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,968
• Density	56/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	2A228 /20166
Elevation	0–728 m (0–2,388 ft) (avg. 550 m or 1,800 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pietrosella (French pronunciation: [pjɛtʁozela]; Corsican: Pitrusedda) is a French commune in the department of Corse-du-Sud, on the island of Corsica.

History

On 6 September 1997, members of the National Liberation Front of Corsica stormed a gendarmerie barracks at Pietrosella.^[3] The weapons stolen from the attack were used to assassinate Claude Érignac on 6 February 1998, homicide committed by Yvan Colonna who was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment.^[4]

Population

See also

• Torra di l'Isuledda
• Communes of the Corse-du-Sud department

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