Careggine

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Careggine
coat of arms
Careggine (Italy)
Careggine
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Lucca  (LU)
Coordinates 44 ° 7 '  N , 10 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 7 '15 "  N , 10 ° 19' 35"  E
height 882  m slm
surface 24 km²
Residents 533 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 22 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 55030
prefix 0583
ISTAT number 046008
Popular name Caregginini
Patron saint San Pietro (June 29)
Website Careggine
Panorama of Careggine
Panorama of Careggine

Careggine is an Italian municipality in the province of Lucca in Tuscany with 533 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Location of Careggine in the province of Lucca

Careggine is located in Garfagnana in a side valley of the Serchio . The community is part of the Apuan Alps Nature Park . It is located about 84 km northwest of the regional capital Florence and 34 km northwest of the provincial capital Lucca in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone F, 3 512 GG.

Important bodies of water in the municipal area are the Torrenti Turrite Secca (6 of 21 km in the municipality) and Edron (3 of 8 km). Both are right tributaries of the Serchio. The Edron previously flows through the Lago di Vagli reservoir , which is partly part of the local area.

The districts (frazioni) include Capanne (840 m, approx. 30 inhabitants), Colli (924 m, approx. 30 inhabitants), Isola Santa (550 m, approx. 25 inhabitants), Le Coste (800 m, approx Inhabitants), Pierdiscini (1077 m, approx. 60 inhabitants) and Porreta (952 m, approx. 50 inhabitants). The main town Careggine has about 300 inhabitants. A former district is Fabbriche di Careggine .

The neighboring municipalities are Camporgiano , Castelnuovo di Garfagnana , Molazzana , Stazzema and Vagli Sotto .

history

In the Isola Santa district, excavations in 1976/77 found ancient and Middle Stone Age stone tools.

Attractions

  • Pieve di San Pietro , Pieve in the center, which was documented as early as 845 and became Pieve in 995.
  • Chiesa di San Jacopo , former church in the Isola Santa district.

  • Façade of the Pieve San Pietro

  • The campanile of the Pieve San Pietro

  • Well in Careggine

  • The San Jacopo Church in Isola Santa

  • Isola Santa and the Apuan Alps

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Adriano Tardelli (1896–1945) anti-fascist resistance fighter
  • Marco Tardelli (* 1954), soccer player and coach

literature

Web links

Commons : Careggine  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA) , accessed on February 10, 2015 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Careggine , accessed on February 6 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Comune di Careggine with the 2011 population figures , accessed on July 15, 2019 (Italian)