Castelfranco Piandiscò

Castelfranco Piandiscò
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Arezzo  (AR)
Coordinates	43 ° 37 '  N , 11 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 37 '25 "  N , 11 ° 33' 30"  E
height	281  m slm
surface	56.04 km²
Residents	9,936 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	177 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	52026
prefix	055
ISTAT number	051040
Popular name	Castelfranchesi and Piandiscoesi
Patron saint	depending on the district
Website	Castelfranco Piandiscò
District of Castelfranco di Sopra (Torre d'Arnolfo)

Castelfranco Piandiscò is an Italian municipality with 9936 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Arezzo in the Tuscany region and is a member of the association I borghi più belli d'Italia (The Most Beautiful Places in Italy).

geography

Location of Castelfranco Piandiscò in the province of Arezzo

The place is about 30 km northwest of the provincial capital Arezzo and about 30 km southeast of the regional capital Florence . The municipality is located in the Valdarno landscape (upper Arno valley ). The most important river in the municipality is the 12 km long Torrente Faella .

The most important districts include Castelfranco di Sopra , Faella and Pian di Scò .

The neighboring municipalities are Castel San Niccolò , Figline e Incisa Valdarno ( FI ), Loro Ciuffenna , Reggello (FI), San Giovanni Valdarno and Terranuova Bracciolini .

history

The municipality was created on January 1, 2014 by merging the previously independent municipalities of Castelfranco di Sopra and Pian di Scò. In the referendum on April 21 and 22, 2013, 61.02% (60.70% turnout) in Castelfranco di Sopra voted in favor of the union, in Pian di Scò 52.66% (34.02% turnout). The law merging the two municipalities is Legge Regionale n.32 of June 18, 2013. The town hall is located in Castelfranco di Sopra.

Community partnerships

Castelfranco Piandiscò maintains municipal partnerships with:

• L'Horme , Canton of Saint-Chamond , France , since 1993
• Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt , Canton of Apt , France, since 1993
• Caldes d'Estrac , Catalonia , Spain , since 2003

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gastone Simoni (* 1937 in Castelfranco di Sopra), bishop
• Franco Chioccioli (* 1959 in Castelfranco di Sopra), racing cyclist

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: CASTEL FRANCO DI SOPRA NEL VAL D'ARNO SUPERIORE. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
• Emanuele Repetti: PIAN DI SCO 'nel Val d'Arno superiore. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
• Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 978-88-365-2767-0 , p. 784 f.

Web links

Commons : Castelfranco Piandiscò  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Castelfranco Piandiscò
• Castelfranco Piandiscò at tuttitalia.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ^ I borghi più belli d'Italia. Borghipiubelliditalia.it, accessed August 6, 2017 (Italian). 
3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on Torrente Faella , accessed on March 11, 2014 (ital.)
4. ↑ Il Comune di Castelfranco Piandiscò (AR) , tuttitalia.it on the new municipality of Castelfranco Piandiscò, accessed on March 11, 2014 (ital.)
5. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Castelfranco Piandiscò on the municipal partnerships , accessed on March 11, 2014 (Italian)