Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina

Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Pisa (PI)
Coordinates	43 ° 13 ' N , 10 ° 54' E Coordinates: 43 ° 13 '0 " N , 10 ° 54' 0" E
height	576 m slm
surface	89 km²
Residents	2,166 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	24 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	56041
prefix	0588
ISTAT number	050011
Popular name	Castelnuovini
Patron saint	San Salvatore (November 9th)
Website	Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina
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Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina is an Italian municipality with 2166 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Pisa in the Tuscany region .

geography

Location of the municipality in the province of Pisa

The municipality is about 90 km southwest of the regional capital Florence and 90 km southeast of the provincial capital Pisa . It is part of the Comunità montana Alta Val di Cecina and is not far from the valley of the devil in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone E, 2 144 GR / G.

The municipality is divided into two geographically independent areas, separated by the municipalities of Pomarance and Radicondoli ( SI ). The district of Montecastelli Pisano is separated from the main town in the northeast. The border with Volterra is only 45 meters away, separated by the municipality of Casole d'Elsa (SI).

The rivers Cecina (3 km of a total of 78 km) and Cornia (8 km of 49 km) as well as the Torrenti Pavone (9 km of 32 km) and Possera (4 km of 18 km) flow through the municipality .

The districts (Frazioni) include Lagoni del Sasso (449 m , approx. 120 inhabitants), Leccia (370 m, approx. 20 inhabitants), Montecastelli Pisano (494 m, approx. 110 inhabitants) and Sasso Pisano (210 m, approx 500 inhabitants).

The neighboring municipalities are Casole d'Elsa, Monterotondo Marittimo ( GR ), Montieri (GR), Pomarance and Radicondoli (SI).

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in documents in 1176, here the Cassero (castle) and the church are reported. In 1213, Volterra took control of the place. The current municipal boundaries came into being in 1870, when the districts of Leccia and Sasso Pisano were separated from the municipality of Pomarance and Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina was assigned. From the 20th century, geothermal energy and geothermal power plants became an important industry.

The Cappella di Sant'Ottaviano

The Santuario della Madonna del Libro in La Leccia

Attractions

Cappella di Sant'Ottaviano in, 18th century resulting Chapel .
Chiesa del Santissimo Salvatore , parish church in the historical center.
Oratorio di San Rocco , oratorio near the town center, contains the work Presentazione di Gesù al Tempio by Cosimo Daddi from 1597.
Fonte del Latte , Hot Spring , which already in 1571 by Andrea Bacci , physician to Sixtus V. was mentioned.
Oratorio della Madonna del Piano , church building built before 1666 between the main town and Montecastelli.
Pieve di San Bartolomeo a Leccia created in 1275 in the district of La Leccia, Pieve .
Pieve dei Santi Jacopo e Filippo , Pieve from 1186.
Santuario della Madonna del Libro , 17th century sanctuary near the district of La Leccia.

Awards

The place is sponsor of the Bandiera Arancione of the Touring Club Italiano

literature

Franco Lessi (a cura di): I Luoghi della Fede. Volterra e la Val di Cecina. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46773-8
Emanuele Repetti: CASTELNUOVO di Val di Cecina. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian)
Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , p. 487.

Web links

Commons : Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website of the municipality of Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina

Individual evidence

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on December 14, 2012 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
^ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina (Italian) , accessed on April 4, 2013
↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the 2001 population figures in the province of Pisa, accessed on April 4, 2013 (Italian)
^ Website of the Bandiera Arancione for Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina, accessed on April 4, 2013 (Italian)

[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 December 14, 2012 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)

[3] Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina (Italian) , accessed on April 4, 2013

[4] Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the 2001 population figures in the province of Pisa, accessed on April 4, 2013 (Italian)

[5] Website of the Bandiera Arancione for Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina, accessed on April 4, 2013 (Italian)