Ampriani

Ampriani is a commune in the Haute-Corse department on the island of Corsica, France.

Ampriani
Commune
Ampriani and the Tallone plain
Location of Ampriani
Ampriani Ampriani
Coordinates: 42°15′06″N 9°21′26″E
Country	France
Region	Corsica
Department	Haute-Corse
Arrondissement	Corte
Canton	Ghisonaccia
Intercommunality	Oriente
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pierre François Dompietrini
Area 1	2 km2 (0.8 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	24
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	2B015 /20272
Elevation	320–749 m (1,050–2,457 ft) (avg. 560 m or 1,840 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Ampriani is a commune on the eastern side of Corsica in the heart of the Pieve (religious jurisdiction) in the Serra in the canton of Moita Verde. It is 30 km by road north-west from Aleria and significantly less in a direct line and 16 km south-west of Moïta in the Valley of the Cursigliese. Access is by the D116 road from Tallone in the south-east which continues north of the village north-west to Zuani. Ampriani is a small village of a single row of houses with a watchtower aligned on a ridge at an altitude of about 600 metres (lowest point 320 m, highest point: 749 m) overlooking the valley and almost the entire plain. The village is nearly deserted in winter, but has about a hundred people in summer. The road leading to the village is a dead end and ends on the old "helicopter pad". The terrain in the commune is rugged and heavily forested.

History

Middle Ages

In the 16th century Ampriani was part of the Pieve di a Serra with two other villages which are in the current commune of Zuani. Around 1520 the three villages making up the Pieve were called:

• Alpriano for Ampriani;
• Cuiani for Zuani;
• La Valle di Sagano.

From the 18th century to today

Before the 18th century Ampriani was still part of the Pieve di a Serra but to the three villages in 1520 were added the villages of:

• Moitta (Moïta);
• Mattra (Matra);
• Pianello;
• Zallana (Zalana).

The three original villages, meanwhile, had become:

• Ampriani;
• Zuvani (Zuani);
• La Valle di Sagano had disappeared.

In 1790, with the French Revolution the Pieves became cantons. The Pieve di a Serra became the Canton of Serra, before taking the name Canton of Moïta in 1830.

In 1954 the communes of Aléria, Ampriani, Matra, Moïta, Pianello, Tallone, Zalana, and Zuani formed the Canton of Moïta.

Between 1971 and 1973, the two cantons of Moïta and Pietra di Verde were merged. They form the current Canton of Moita Verde.

Today the Canton of Moita Verde is composed of fourteen communes. These are the six communes in the Canton of Pietra: Canale-di-Verde, Linguizzetta, Tox, Campi, A Petra, and Chiatra (to which can be added the two hamlets of Monticchio and Ersagie, which now belong respectively to the communes of Pietra-di-Verde and Chiatra and the second to U Monte). To these are added the eight communes of the Canton of Moïta to create the Canton of Moïta-Verde.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
1965	1995	Ange Michel Renucci
1995	2008	Huguette Ghilardi
2001	2026	Pierre François Dompietrini

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 24 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1800 88 —     1806 124 +5.88% 1821 142 +0.91% 1831 160 +1.20% 1836 162 +0.25% 1841 158 −0.50% 1846 168 +1.23% 1851 171 +0.35% 1856 164 −0.83% 1861 137 −3.53% 1866 142 +0.72% 1872 116 −3.31% 1876 117 +0.21% 1881 94 −4.28% 1886 110 +3.19% 1891 112 +0.36% 1896 111 −0.18% 1901 111 +0.00%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 135 +3.99% 1911 135 +0.00% 1921 95 −3.45% 1926 88 −1.52% 1931 94 +1.33% 1936 127 +6.20% 1946 74 −5.26% 1954 39 −7.69% 1962 44 +1.52% 1968 34 −4.21% 1975 41 +2.71% 1982 36 −1.84% 1990 31 −1.85% 1999 14 −8.45% 2007 9 −5.37% 2012 13 +7.63% 2017 24 +13.05%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Sites and Monuments

The Zuani Convent

• The Convent of Saint Francis of Zuani (1730) is registered as an historical monument.

See also

• Communes of the Haute-Corse department

External links

• Ampriani on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)