Campiglia d'Orcia

Campiglia d'Orcia
Panorama of Campiglia d'Orcia
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Siena  (SI)
local community	Castiglione d'Orcia
Coordinates	42 ° 57 ′  N , 11 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
height	524  m slm
Residents	413 (2017)
Telephone code	0577	CAP	53023

Campiglia d'Orcia is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Castiglione d'Orcia in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

The district is located approx. 7 km south of the main town Castiglione d'Orcia, approx. 47 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena , approx. 97 km southeast of the regional capital Florence and approx. 160 km northwest of the Italian capital Rome in the Orcia valley on the northern foothills of the mountain Monte Amiata at 811 meters above sea level and has about 420 inhabitants. The Via Francigena runs in the immediate vicinity , here on the same route as the Via Cassia . The closest places are Vivo d'Orcia (district of Castiglione d'Orcia, approx. 5 km southwest) and Bagni San Filippo (district of Castiglione d'Orcia, approx. 5 km southeast).

history

Rocca di Campigliola

The place is mentioned for the first time on April 18, 973 in a document of the Aldobrandeschi . From 1163 on, the Visconti di Campiglia were the masters of the place, closely linked to the local families of the Aldobrandeschi and the Ardengheschi. Under Pepone della Rocche (Pepone figlio di Tancredi Visconte di Campiglia) the place allied itself in the conflict over Montalcino with Siena , but then turned to the war opponents Florence and Orvieto , which led Siena to take the place in 1234. In 1425 the place finally fell to the Senese Republic. After the fall of the Senese Republic in 1555, the place fell to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany . It was an independent place until 1777, when it became part of Abbadia San Salvatore . In 1867 Campiglia d'Orcia became part of Castiglione d'Orcia.

Attractions

Chiesa di San Biagio

Madonna col Bambino che consegna le chiavi a San Pietro (Sebastiano Folli), Chiesa di San Biagio

• Chiesa di San Biagio , consecrated church in 1648 , reconstructed in 1795 by the Senese architect Leonardo de Vegni. Contains of Sebastiano Folli (attributed to) the work of Madonna col Bambino che consegna le chiavi a San Pietro and the temperature -Werk Madonna del Carmine 17th century.
• Ricorsi , former coaching inn near the Formone river .
• Rocca di Campigliola (also called Campigliaccia or Rocca Superiore ), castle ruins outside the city walls.

literature

• Ippolito Corridori, Arturo Santioli: L'Amiata. Edizioni Cantagalli, Siena 1987
• Emanuele Repetti: CAMPIGLIA d'Orcia, o di Val d'Orcia. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)
• Bruno Santi: I Luoghi della Fede. L'Amiata e la Val d'Orcia. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46780-0
• Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , p. 688.

Web links

Commons : Campiglia d'Orcia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Campiglia d'Orcia website

Individual evidence

1. ^ TCI: Toscana.
2. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on December 14, 2012 (Italian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Corridori / Santioli: L'Amiata.
4. ↑ Repetti: CAMPIGLIA d'Orcia, o di Val d'Orcia.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Santi: L'Amiata e la Val d'Orcia.
6. ↑ Emanuele Repetti: ricorsi in Val d'Orcia. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , accessed on December 10, 2014 (pdf, Italian)