Campiglio di Cireglio

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Campiglio di Cireglio is a district of the provincial town of Pistoia in the Tuscany region .

geography

Campiglio di Cireglio , usually just called Campiglio , is a small mountain village in a wooded area and is located around two kilometers northwest of the center of the city of Pistoia near the Via Modenese (regional road SR 66) to Modena . The place is at 331 m and has about 135 inhabitants. The name-giving place Cireglio is 612 m, has about 700 inhabitants and is about 1 km north. A few meters south of the village flows the Torrente Vincio (Vincio di Brandeglio), a right tributary of the Ombrone Pistoiese .

history

The place is first mentioned in 1040 in connection with the Pieve San Pancrazio a Brandeglio in today's Cireglio. Another mention of the place was found in 1067 in documents of the bishop of Pistoia , Leo (1067-1085 in office). In the 13th century the place was known as Campillium de Brandellio . Until 1877 the place belonged to the municipality of Porta al Borgo and was then incorporated into Pistoia.

Attractions

  • Chiesa di San Pietro a Campiglio , church in the diocese of Pistoia , which was documented as Ecclesia Sancti Petri de Campiglio as early as the 13th century and was subordinate to the Pieve di Brandeglio (today Chiesa dei Santi Maria e Pancrazio a Cireglio ). From 1681, the church was redesigned.

particularities

In this place Francesco Arcangeli was born, who is considered to be the murderer of the very important archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann .

literature

  • Emanuele Repetti: CAMPIGLIO (Campillium) nella Valle dell'Ombrone pistojese. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Emanuele Repetti: CAMPIGLIO (Campillium) nella Valle dell'Ombrone pistojese. , accessed on September 17, 2013 (Italian)
  2. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the 2001 population figures in the Province of Pistoia, accessed on September 17, 2013 (Italian)
  3. ↑ a b Diocesi di Pistoia, accessed on September 17, 2013 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Unificato per le Soprintendenze Archivistiche (SIUSA) of the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali for the Chiesa di San Pietro a Campiglio , accessed on September 18, 2013 (ital.)

Coordinates: 43 ° 59 '  N , 10 ° 51'  E