Capolona

Capolona
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Arezzo  (AR)
Coordinates	43 ° 34 '  N , 11 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 34 '4 "  N , 11 ° 51' 53"  E
height	263  m slm
surface	47.34 km²
Residents	5,340 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	113 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	52010
prefix	0575
ISTAT number	051006
Popular name	Capolonesi
Patron saint	Natività di Maria Vergine (September 8th)
Website	Capolona municipality
Panorama of Capolona

Capolona is a municipality with 5340 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Arezzo in the Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

Location of Capolona in the province of Arezzo

The community extends over around 47  km² . It is located about 12 km north of the provincial capital Arezzo and 80 km southeast of the regional capital Florence in the valley of the Casentino on the right bank of the Arno , which spends 9 km here. Other important bodies of water in the municipality are the Torrenti Faltognano (every 7 km in the municipality) and Ritoto (every 3 km in the municipality) The place is located on a southeastern foothill of the Pratomagno mountain (1592 m) in the climatic classification of Italian municipalities in zone D, 2 026 GR / G

The districts include Bibbiano (505  m , approx. 50 inhabitants), Castelluccio (250 m, approx. 430 inhabitants), Pieve San Giovanni (360 m, approx. 200 inhabitants) and San Martino Sopr'Arno (304 m, approx. 170 inhabitants).

The neighboring municipalities are Arezzo , Castel Focognano , Castiglion Fibocchi , Subbiano and Talla .

history

The castle of Capolona was first mentioned in 1199 in a Camaldolese document. The place itself probably developed earlier around the Abbazia di San Gennaro a Campoleone (Campus Leonis), which has been known since 972. In conflict with neighboring Arezzo, the castle and parts of the abbey were destroyed in 1214. After the abbey was abandoned at the end of the 14th century, the place became part of the Republic of Florence in 1384 and then attached to Subbiano, where it remained until the early 19th century. In 1527 Charles III conquered and destroyed . de Bourbon-Montpensier , paid for Charles V , the place. The bridge Ponte Caliano to Ponte Caliano (district of Subbiano), probably built in Roman times and first documented in 1211, was almost completely destroyed in World War II in 1944 and was later rebuilt. Since the unification of Italy, the place has seen an increase in population. In 1861 there were around 2500 residents, in 2011 around 5400 people lived in the village. The place belongs to the diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro .

Attractions

The Pieve dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Marino in Pieve San Giovanni

The Church of San Michele Arcangelo in Castelluccio

The Pieve di Santa Maria Maddalena a Sietina

• Chiesa della Natività di Maria Vergine , church in the main town
• Pieve dei Santi Giovanni Battista e Marino , Pieve in the Pieve San Giovanni district. Probably from the 5th century and was the most important church in the area until the 10th century. Restored in the 18th century and in 1929, it contains a wooden cross from the 14th century and the 17th century canvas painting Battesimo di Gesù .
• Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo a Castelluccio in the district of Castelluccio. Was known as Sant'Angelo in Fabriciano in the 13th century and was attached to Pieve a Sietina in 1770.
• Pieve di San Martino Sopr'Arno , Pieve in the district of San Martino Sopr'Arno. First documented in 1017 and restored in the 19th century.
• Pieve di Santa Maria Maddalena a Sietina , Pieve first mentioned in 1022 approx. 6 km south of Capolona. Contains frescoes from the 14th century ( Madonna in trono con Bambino e due sante inginocchiate ) and 15th century ( Madonna in trono, Annunciazione, Martirio di Sant'Agata ).
• Pieve di Cenina , Pieve (11th / 15th century)
• Castello di Belfiore , also called Torri di Belfiore , ruined castle, the towers of which probably date from the time of the Lombards .
• Torre di Bibbiano , with the adjoining church of Santa Maria , whose campanile was created from the former castle tower.
• Chiesa di Sant'Apollinare near Il Santo di Ponina , church (9th / 17th century)

traffic

The place has the stop Capolona, ​​which is on the Ferrovia Casentinese railway line. The route goes from Arezzo to Stia .

literature

• Giovanni Caselli: Casentino - Guida Storico Ambientale. Editrice Le Balze, Montepulciano 2003, ISBN 88-87187-81-9
• Emanuele Repetti: CAPOLONA nel Val d'Arno aretino. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online version of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Capolona (Italian)
• Information on the municipality of Capolona (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Capolona , accessed on May 6, 2014 (Italian)
3. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on May 6, 2014 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
4. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the districts and population figures 2001 in the province of Arezzo, accessed on May 6, 2014 (Italian)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Emanuele Repetti: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833-1846).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Official website of the municipality of Capolona on the history of the place , accessed on May 8, 2014 (Italian)
7. ↑ Casentino. Terra di Santi e Cavalieri. Aska Edizioni, Florence 2008, ISBN 978-88-7542-125-0 , p. 35
8. ^ ^{A b} Giovanni Caselli: Casentino.
9. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Subbiano on the bridge and the district of Ponte Caliano , accessed on May 8, 2014 (Italian)
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} I luoghi della Fede website of the Tuscany region on the church buildings in the region, accessed on May 1, 2014 (Italian)
11. ↑ Website Il bel Casentino for Castello di Belfiore , accessed on May 8, 2014 (Italian)
12. ^ Website Il bel Casentino on the tower in Bibbiano , accessed on May 8, 2014 (Italian)