Castelnuovo dell'Abate

Castelnuovo dell'Abate
Panorama of Castelnuovo dell'Abate
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Siena  (SI)
local community	Montalcino
Coordinates	43 ° 0 ′  N , 11 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 59 ′ 41 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 1 ″  E
height	385  m slm
Residents	231 (2017)
Telephone code	0577	CAP	53024

Castelnuovo dell'Abate is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Montalcino in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

The place is about 8 km southeast of the capital Montalcino and about 40 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena in the area of ​​the Val d'Orcia (Orciatal). The place is 385 m and had about 240 inhabitants in 2001. In 2017 there were 231 residents. The Orcia River is just south of the village and forms the border with the municipality of Castel del Piano . The place Sant'Angelo in Colle (also a district of Montalcino) is approx. 5 km to the west, the municipal boundary to Castiglione d'Orcia is approx. 2 km to the east.

history

The name of the place Castelnuovo dell'Abate (Eng. New castle of the abbot) is derived from the abbots of Sant'Antimo , who built a (new) fort on the hill south of the abbey, which was built on the ruins of a much older one. The town's church was first mentioned on February 11, 1333. The city walls were built by the Republic of Siena around 1360 . After the Abbey of Sant'Antimo was dissolved by Pope Pius II in 1462 , the place was subordinate to the Bishop of Montalcino. On June 2, 1777 the place became a district of Montalcino.

Attractions

The Pieve dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo

• Pieve dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo , Pieve in the town center, which was first documented in 1333. Was dedicated to San Giovanni until the 15th century and then took its current name. Contains two frescoes by Ventura Salimbeni ( Martirio di Santa Caterina d'Alessandria , inside of the facade, and Beato Pietro Petroni , a lunette of the side portal, made in 1597). The church was changed in 1938 in the neo-Gothic style.
• Palazzo del Vescovo , building in the center from the 15th century.
• Palazzo Bellanti , building in the center from the late Renaissance .
• Porta Nuova , medieval gate of the ramparts.
• Abbey of Sant'Antimo , just outside and north of the town center.
• Cave di Onice , a former quarry approx. 1 km south of the place where alabaster was quarried. This was used in the construction of the Abbey of Sant'Antimo. The materials developed here were also used in the cathedral of Siena and that of Orvieto .

traffic

• Castelnuovo dell'Abate is on the provincial road Strada Provinciale 55 , which connects Montalcino with the northern municipalities of Monte Amiata .
• The Monte Amiata train station (Stazione di Monte Amiata) is about 3 km southeast of the town on the Orcia river. The station was active until 1994 and was located on the Asciano - Monte Antico railway line (municipality of Civitella Paganico ). Today the station is only served by historic trains in the summer months.

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  The entrance gate Porta Nuova

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  Castelnuovo dell'Abate with the campanile of the Pieve dei Santi Filippo e Giacomo seen from the southwest

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  Borgo di Sotto , row of houses below Porta Nuova (Piaggia)

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  Cave di Onice , quarry south of the village

literature

• Lilia Mani Martini: Castelnuovo dell'Abate. In: Enciclopedia Italiana (1931) , Treccani ( Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana )
• Emanuele Repetti: CASTELNUOVO DELL'ABATE in Val d'Orcia. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana. (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian)
• Bruno Santi (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede: L'Amiata e la Val d'Orcia. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46780-0 , p. 70 f.
• Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 978-88-365-2767-0 , p. 651

Web links

Commons : Castelnuovo dell'Abate  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Montalcino for the district of Castelnuovo dell'Abate

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Touring Club Italiano: Toscana.
2. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on October 19, 2015 (Italian)
3. ↑ italia.indettaglio.it on Castelnuovo dell'Abate , accessed on January 4, 2018 (English)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Bruno Santi (ed.): I Luoghi della Fede: L'Amiata e la Val d'Orcia.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Emanuele Repetti: CASTELNUOVO DELL'ABATE in Val d'Orcia.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the municipality of Montalcino: Miniguide 10: Arte e Mestieri , accessed on November 8, 2015 (pdf, Italian)
7. ↑ Castelnuovo dell'Abate on the pages of the Geopaesaggi della Toscana.
8. ↑ Sant'Antimo website , accessed on November 8, 2015 (Italian)