Bagni di Lucca

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Bagni di Lucca
coat of arms
Bagni di Lucca (Italy)
Bagni di Lucca
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Lucca  (LU)
Coordinates 44 ° 1 '  N , 10 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 0 '42 "  N , 10 ° 35' 27"  E
height 150  m slm
surface 164.5 km²
Residents 5,865 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 36 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 55022
prefix 0583
ISTAT number 046002
Popular name Bagnaioli
Patron saint San Pietro and Paolo (June 29)
Website Bagni di Lucca
Bagni di Lucca, view from the Ponte a Serraglio to the Torrente Lima
Bagni di Lucca, view from the Ponte a Serraglio to the Torrente Lima

Bagni di Lucca is an Italian municipality with 5865 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Lucca in Tuscany .

geography

Location of the municipality of Bagni di Lucca in the province of Lucca

Bagni di Lucca is about 25 km north of the provincial capital Lucca . The regional capital Florence is about 60 km southeast. The place is in the Archdiocese of Lucca and in the climatic classification of Italian communities in Zone E, 2 227 GG. The most important bodies of water in the municipality include the Serchio River , which only touches the town to the west for a short time, and the Lima , which flows along the town center and spends a total of 21 of its 42 km in Bagni di Lucca. Other important bodies of water are the Torrenti Camaione (6 of 6 km in the municipal area), Fegana (7 of 10 km in the municipal area), Pizzorna (4 of 10 km in the municipal area) and Scesta (11 of 11 km in the municipality).

The districts (frazioni) include Bagni di Lucca (main town, 150 m, approx. 3090 inhabitants), Benabbio (417 m, approx. 300 inhabitants), Brandeglio (629 m, approx. 50 inhabitants), Casabasciana (572 m, approx . 130 inhabitants), Casoli (500 m, approx. 40 inhabitants), Crasciana (799 m, approx. 110 inhabitants), Fabbriche di Casabasciana (202 m, approx. 150 inhabitants), Granaiola (416 m, approx. 75 inhabitants) , Limano (538 m, approx. 80 inhabitants), Lucchio (670 m, approx. 35 inhabitants), Lugliano (401 m, approx. 180 inhabitants), Lugnano - Monti di Villa (663 m, approx. 40 inhabitants), Montefegatesi (842 m, approx. 170 inhabitants), Pieve di Monti di Villa (473 m, approx. 60 inhabitants), San Cassiano (522 m, approx. 290 inhabitants), San Gemignano (532 m, approx. 130 inhabitants), Scesta (241 m, approx. 250 inhabitants), Val Fegana (125 m, approx. 80 inhabitants) and Vico Pancellorum (630 m, approx. 110 inhabitants).

The neighboring municipalities are Abetone Cutigliano ( PT ), Borgo a Mozzano , Coreglia Antelminelli , (PT), Pescia (PT), San Marcello Piteglio (PT) and Villa Basilica .

history

Bagni di Lucca ( Baths of Lucca ) is an old thermal bath in the Lima Valley, a tributary of the Serchio, which was famous in its time . The thermal springs were already known to the Romans . Until 1766 the place was called Bagno a Corsena .

Attractions

The church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Fornoli
The Lima bridge Ponte a Serraglio
The Lima bridge Ponte delle Catene
  • Cappella Demidoff , chapel near the former hospital near Serraglio.
  • Chiesa del Santissimo Crocifisso , church in Ponte a Serraglio from 1544. The campanile dates from the early 18th century.
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta a Benabbio , church built in the 13th century at the latest.
  • Chiesa di San Paolo apostolo a Vico Pancellorum , church from the 12th century.
  • Chiesa di San Pietro a Corsena , already mentioned in the 11th century church in Villa / Corsena.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Fornoli , church in Fornoli, which already existed in 825 and has been changed several times.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta a Casabasciana , church built in 1503.
  • Chiesa di Santo Stefano di Bargi , already mentioned in the 9th century.
  • Pieve di San Giovanni Battista a Controne , Pieve first mentioned in 884 . Was changed a lot in the 14th century.
  • Pieve di San Giovanni Battista a Monti di Villa , first mentioned in the 13th century. Was renewed in 1446 and modernized in the 18th century.
  • Ponte a Serraglio , bridge over the Lima near Serraglio. Originated in the 14th century (132 m above sea level).
  • Ponte delle Catene (Chain Bridge), bridge over the Lima in Fornoli, which leads to Borgo a Mozzano (left of the Lima). Created by Lorenzo Nottolini and completed in 1860.
  • Villa Buonvisi , villa in Bagno alla Villa, was built between 1558 and 1570 by Benedetto Buonvisi. In 1822, George Gordon Byron was a guest here.
  • Villa Reale , also called Villa Ducale , was built in 1811 by Elisa Bonaparte (Baciocchi).

traffic

Sons and daughters of the church

Bagni di Lucca in literature

We owe a detailed description of local bathing habits around 1580 to Michel de Montaigne's “Diary of a Bathing Trip”. Even in the 19th century, illustrious guests came to the baths. For example Heinrich Heine , who documented it with his travelogue “The Baths of Lucca” and wrote:

“I've never seen a more charming valley, especially when you look down into the village from the terrace of the upper bath, where the serious green cypress trees stand. There you can see the bridge that leads over a river called Lima, and, cutting the village in two, falling over pieces of rock at both ends in moderate waterfalls, making a noise as if it wanted to say the most pleasant things and could do so the echo chatting on all sides not get a word. "

literature

Web links

Commons : Bagni di Lucca  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) , accessed on April 22, 2015 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Bagni di Lucca , accessed on April 22, 2015 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Comune di Bagni di Lucca with the population figures from 2011, accessed on July 12, 2019 (Italian)
  5. ↑ a b c d Touring Club Italiano: Toscana.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h Official website of the Diocese of Lucca on the churches in the parish of Bagni di Lucca ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on April 23, 2015 (Italian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diocesilucca.it
  7. ^ Ovidio Guaita: Le Ville della Toscana. Newton & Compton Editori, Rome 1997, ISBN 88-8183-787-0 , pp. 88 f.
  8. ↑ Translated from the French by Otto Flake , published in the library of classic travelogues .
  9. ↑ Bagni di Lucca on www.toscana-lucca.de