Bisenzio

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Bisenzio
Location of the Bisenzio

Location of the Bisenzio

Data
location Tuscany , Italy
River system Arno
Drain over Arno  → Tyrrhenian Sea
River basin district Appennino Settentrionale
source Northern Apennines , south of Cantagallo
muzzle at Signa in the Arno coordinates: 43 ° 46 '23 "  N , 11 ° 5' 52"  E 43 ° 46 '23 "  N , 11 ° 5' 52"  E

length 47 km
Left tributaries Marina, Marinella, Rio Buti
Medium-sized cities Prato
Small towns Campi Bisenzio , Signa , Vaiano , Vernio
Communities Cantagallo
The Bisenzio at Prato

The Bisenzio at Prato

The Bisenzio is a 47 km long river in the region Tuscany in Italy , the provinces of Prato and the Metropolitan city of Florence crossed from north to south and at Signa in the Arno flows.

course

The river has its source in the northern Apennines a few meters south of the municipality of Cantagallo , province of Prato , about 40 km north-northwest of Florence .

It flows through the spring community Cantagallo for a total of 10 km and initially moves northeast to Vernio (210 m), where it spends 6 km. Then it turns south, goes through the municipality of Cantagallo (district of Carmignanello, 183 m), where it meets the historic bridges Ponte di Cerbaia (called Ponte della Signoria ) and Ponte Rotto , and then crosses Vaiano (98 m, Length of the river in the local area 8 km), where the Rio Fiumenta flows in, and the provincial capital Prato (9 km, 30 m). Here it first meets the fish farm (Pescaia) in the northern district of Santa Lucia , then on the right side it passes the center of the main town with the bridges Ponte di Mercatale and Ponte alla Vittoria . He gave the place Campi Bisenzio its name since 1862 and flows through the municipality for 8 km. Here it is fed by the Marinella and Marina rivers. After another 5 km in the municipality of Signa , the Bisenzio flows from the north to the Arno as a right tributary.

Rail transport

The Bisenzio at Dante's

The place is mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the Inferno of his Divine Comedy (Canto 32, 55-57)

Se vuoi saper chi son cotesti due, la valle onde Bisenzo si dichina, del padre loro Alberto e di lor fue.

German in the translation by Carl Streckfuß :

Shall I show you who these two are? The valley that wets the Bisenzio flood Was once theirs and their father's.

photos

  • Ponte di Cerbaia bridge near Carmignanello (Cantagallo)

  • Ponte Rotto near Carmignanello (Cantagallo)

  • Inflow into the Arno near Signa

literature

  • Giorgio Battini: Il fiume racconta. Viaggio nella Toscana dei fiumi , Bonechi Editrice, Florence 1993, ISBN 88-7009-941-5 , pp. 59-68
  • Emanuele Repetti: BISENZIO (Bisentium flumen). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian, p. 38.)

Web links

Commons : Bisenzio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c SIRA
  2. ↑ a b c Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the districts and altitude meters in 2001 in the province of Prato, accessed on March 27, 2013 (Italian)
  3. ↑ Batini
  4. ↑ Arteestoria.com ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2017 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 February 12, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arteestoria.com
  5. ↑ Wikisource, accessed on March 21, 2013 Divine Comedy (Streckfuß 1876) / Inferno