Castiglion Fibocchi

Castiglion Fibocchi
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Arezzo  (AR)
Coordinates	43 ° 32 '  N , 11 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 31 '44 "  N , 11 ° 45' 49"  E
height	300  m slm
surface	25.68 km²
Residents	2,125 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	83 inhabitants / km²
prefix	0575
ISTAT number	051011
Popular name	Castiglionesi
Patron saint	San Pietro (June 29)
Website	Castiglion Fibocchi municipality
Panorama of Castiglion Fibocchi

Castiglion Fibocchi is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 2125 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Arezzo .

geography

Location of Castiglion Fibocchi in the province of Arezzo

The place extends over around 26  km² . It is located about 10 km northwest of the provincial capital Arezzo and 60 km southeast of the regional capital Florence . The place is in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone D, 2 093 GG. The Torrente Bregine , a right tributary of the Arno , is an important body of water for the place. He spends 7 of his 11 km in the municipality.

Gello Biscardo (489 m, approx. 30 inhabitants) is one of its districts (frazioni ).

The neighboring municipalities are Arezzo , Capolona , Laterina Pergine Valdarno , Loro Ciuffenna , Talla and Terranuova Bracciolini .

Attractions

Town hall with tower in Castiglion Fibocchi

The Church of San Pietro e Sant'Ilario

• Palazzo Comunale , town hall
• Chiesa di San Pietro e Sant'Ilario , already mentioned in 1304 church in the town center.
• Chiesa di San Pietro in Pezzano , 1232 consecrated church outside the town center. Was renovated in 1583.
• Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista , church from the 14th century in the district of Gello Biscardo.
• Pieve di San Quirico in Alfiano , also called San Quirico Sopr'Arno , Pieve mentioned as early as 1131 .

Community partnerships

There has been a partnership with the French municipality of Veurey-Voroize in the Isère department since 1991 .

Transport links

• Road: The main road Via Setteponti (SP 1) connects the town with the provincial capital Arezzo and the other surrounding towns, and the Valdarno junction of the A1 / E 35 autostrada from Milan to Naples can be reached via Via Setteponti.
• Rail: From Arezzo there are train connections to all major cities, such as Florence and Rome .
• Airplane: the nearest airports of interest are in Florence , Forlì (Bologna) and Pisa .

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: CASTIGLION FIBOCCHI (Castellio de filiis Bocchi) nel Val d'Arno aretino. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian) on Castiglion Fiorentino
• Arezzo and especially the landscape of the northern Pratomagno Mountains around Gello Biscardo and Castiglion Fibocchi are scenes from Walter Kappacher's Tuscany novel Selina or The Other Life .

Web links

Commons : Castiglion Fibocchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Castiglion Fibocchi municipality

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 March 7, 2015 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the waters in Castiglion Fibocchi , accessed on March 7, 2015 (Italian)
4. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the districts and population figures 2001 in the province of Arezzo, accessed on March 7, 2015 (Italian)
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Official website of the municipality on the buildings in Castiglion Fibocchi , accessed on March 7, 2015 (Italian)
6. ↑ Kappacher, Walter: Selina or the other life. Dtv, Munich 2009.