Batignano

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Batignano is a district of Grosseto in the province of Grosseto , Tuscany region in Italy .

Panorama of Batignano

geography

The place is 12 km north of the main town and the provincial capital Grosseto . The place is 150  meters above sea level and has about 600 inhabitants. It is located on a southern branch of the Monte Leoni mountain (614 m). Neighboring towns are Sticciano (north, municipality Roccastrada), Montorsaio (northeast, municipality Campagnatico ), Roselle (south) and Montepescali (southwest, both districts of Grosseto). The place is surrounded by a medieval wall ring (12th-14th centuries) that is still partially in place today. The northern entrance gate is the Porta Senese , the southern one the Porta Grossetana .

history

The place was first documented in 1119, when the Visconti family , vassals of the Aldobrandeschi , ruled. The document, a donation, comes from the children and widow of Paganuccio Visconte . At that time, mining, especially for silver and lead , became important to the place. Ugolino Visconti negotiated a contract with the Republic of Siena in 1178 , which gave it a third of the creative rights. Relations with the Aldobrandeschi remained unaffected. Ildebrandino Aldobrandeschi set Manto di Grosseto (Manto di Guglielmo degli Abati di Malia) as ruler for the Castello in 1213, the mines remained with the Aldobrandeschi. After the death of Manto in 1231, the Suvera family ruled (also Sughera , relatives of the Visconti) who, after the battle of Montaperti , submitted to the re-energized Republic of Siena. Then the place fell to the family branch of the Aldobrandeschi from Santa Fiora . In the early 14th century, the Fonteguerri and then the Piccolomini from Siena took control of the place, who then sold the place to the Republic of Siena in 1363. The place gave itself the first statutes in 1373. After the defeat of the Republic of Siena against Cosimo I de 'Medici Batignano went with Siena into the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .

Attractions

The Loggia di Bino degli Abati , on the right the inside of the Porta Grossetana
  • Pieve di San Martino , first published in 1188 in a document from Pope Clement III. mentioned Pieve in the town center. The marble baptismal font dates from the 15th century. During the restorations in the 1960s, frescoes from the 14th century came to light here. Also contains the wooden urn of Giovanni Nicolucci, which was previously in the Convento Santa Croce.
  • Confraternita di San Giuseppe , church in the town center from the 17th century.
  • Loggia di Bino degli Abati , the loggia dedicated to the Bino degli Abati del Malia ( Condottiere died in 1334 ) in the center of the village near the Porta Grossetana. It was built with parts from the Roman era from Roselle.
  • Oratorio di San Michele Arcangelo , former oratorio in the town center.
  • Convento di Santa Croce , formerly Santa Lucia , convent outside the town center from the early 17th century. First belonged to the Augustinian order , then to the observance movement and has been privately owned since the beginning of the 19th century. The building, completed in 1626, was financed by Maria Magdalena of Austria to create a burial place for Giovanni da San Guglielmo (Giovanni Nicolucci, 1552–1621), who died here. The entrance door to the cloister contains a lunette by Giuseppe Nicola Nasini . In 1969 Adam Pollock bought the property. Under his direction, the Batignano Opera Festival took place here from 1974 to 2004, at which, among others, James Bowman (1976, Tamerlano , first performance of the piece in historical performance practice ), Italo Calvino (1981, text version by Zaide ), Åsa Dornbusch , Alison Hagley (1985) and Jonathan Nott (1988) participated.
  • Necropoli di Nomadelfia , necropolis from the Iron Age .

traffic

The place has a junction on Strada Statale 223 di Paganico .

literature

  • Daniele Chiti: La visita Gherardini del 1676 al Capitanato di Giustizia di Grosseto ( copy for Batignano ), Dipartimento di Storia, University of Siena
  • Giuseppe Guerrini / Amministrazione Provinciale di Grosseto: Torri e Castelli della provincia di Grosseto. Nuova Immagine Edizioni, Siena 1999, ISBN 88-7145-154-6 , p. 104.
  • Emanuele Repetti: BATIGNANO (Batinianum). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
  • Nicoletta Maioli, Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli: Grosseto. In: Bruno Santi: Guida Storico-Artistica alla Maremma. Nuova Immagine Edizioni, Siena 1995, ISBN 88-7145-093-0 , pp. 135 f.
  • Bruno Santi (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede. Grosseto, Massa Marittima e la Maremma. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46786-X

Web links

Commons : Batignano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the 2001 population figures in the province of Grosseto, accessed on April 16, 2014 (Italian)
  2. ↑ a b c d Nicoletta Maioli, Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli: Grosseto.
  3. ↑ a b Emanuele Repetti: BATIGNANO (Batinianum).
  4. ↑ a b Guerrini
  5. ↑ a b c Atlante Storico Topografico dei siti di interests storico culturale del Comune di Grosseto
  6. ↑ Magistrature senesi in the Grosseto State Archives , accessed on April 17, 2014 (Italian)
  7. ↑ a b Bruno Santi (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede. Grosseto, Massa Marittima e la Maremma.
  8. ↑ Zoe Dare Hall: Bowing out of Tuscany. In: The Daily Telegraph of April 17, 2007, accessed April 17, 2014.

Coordinates: 42 ° 52 '  N , 11 ° 10'  E