Chitignano

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Chitignano
coat of arms
Chitignano (Italy)
Chitignano
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Arezzo  (AR)
Coordinates 43 ° 40 '  N , 11 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 39 '48 "  N , 11 ° 52' 56"  E
height 582  m slm
surface 14.72 km²
Residents 907 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 62 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 52010
prefix 0575
ISTAT number 051014
Popular name Chitignanini
Patron saint San Vincenzo martire (January 22nd)
Website Chitignano municipality
Panorama of Chitignano
Panorama of Chitignano

Chitignano is a municipality with 907 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Arezzo in the Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

Location of Chitignano in the province of Arezzo

The community extends over around 15  km² . It is located about 25 km north of the provincial capital Arezzo and about 55 km east of the regional capital Florence in the mountain valley of the Casentino and in the Alpe di Catenaia . The most important river in the municipality is the Rassina flowing below the village , which spends 6 of its 15 km here. The place is in the climatic classification of Italian municipalities in Zone E, 2531 GR / G and is part of the Unione dei Comuni Montani del Casentino .

The districts include Rosina (483  m , approx. 60 inhabitants) and Taena (511 m, approx. 13 inhabitants). The districts of Croce di Sarna and La Casa overlap with the municipality of Chiusi della Verna .

The neighboring municipalities are Caprese Michelangelo , Chiusi della Verna and Subbiano .

history

The place was first documented on December 7, 967 as Clotiniano in a diploma from Otto I, the Great . Thereafter, the place was owned for a long time by the Counts of Chiusi (della Verna) and the Ubertini until it came under the rule of Guido Tarlati , Archbishop of Arezzo, in 1325 . With taking the metropolitan area by the Republic of Florence in 1385 the city fell to the under Florentine control Ubertini back and later became the Duchy of Tuscany incorporated, but remained independent county until 1779, when Leopold II. To feudalism abolished in Tuscany. The community was founded in 1780 when Taena and Rosina joined Chitignano as districts. Important branches of the local economy were gunpowder production, tobacco growing and the tobacco trade until it was banned in 1830, as well as the smuggling of goods. Most of the gunpowder factories were destroyed by German troops around 1944, the last one closed in 1966. The place is still known today for its mineral-rich rivers Rassina and Il Rio .

Attractions

Pieve dei Santi Vincenzo e Pietro
  • Pieve dei Santi Vincenzo e Pietro , Pieve inaugurated in 1614 in the diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro .
  • Chiesa di San Vincenzo , a church that already existed in 1200 and was expanded in 1948.
  • Chiesa di Santa Margherita in the district of Rosina. Medieval church, formerly part of the Pieve a Socana in Castel Focognano.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Cristoforo in the Taena district. Medieval church, formerly part of the Pieve a Socana in Castel Focognano.
  • Chiesa di San Lorenzo , also called Cappella degli Ubertini , is located in the Castello Ubertini.
  • Castello Ubertini , castle of the ruling Ubertini family, which was expanded by them in the 16th century and belonged to the Ubertini until 1830. Briefly belonged to the Tarlati in the 14th century.
  • Vecchia Podesteria , also called Villa Cironi , building from the 15th century.
  • Gunpowder and Smuggling Museum ( Museo della Polvere da sparo e del Contrabbando ).
  • Buca del tesoro , water park on the Rassina river between Chitignano and Rosina.

Community partnerships

literature

Web links

Commons : Chitignano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ^ A b Touring Club Italiano: Toscana.
  3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Chitignano , accessed on April 30, 2014 (ital.)
  4. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on April 30, 2014 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  5. ↑ Official website of the Regione Toscana for the Unione dei Comuni Montani del Casentino , accessed on April 30, 2014 (Italian)
  6. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the districts and population figures 2001 in the province of Arezzo, accessed on April 30, 2014 (ital.)
  7. ^ A b c Giovanni Caselli: Casentino.
  8. ^ A b Emanuele Repetti: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana. (1833-1846)
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g Comune di Chitignano - Piano Strutturale - Relazione illustrativa
  10. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Chitignano on the territory and history of the place , accessed on May 1, 2014 (Italian)
  11. ↑ Il bel Casentino to Castello Ubertini, accessed on April 30, 2014 (Italian)
  12. ^ Official website of the municipality of Chitignano on the Museo della Polvere da sparo e del Contrabbando , accessed on May 1, 2014 (Italian)
  13. ^ Official website of the municipality of Chitignano on municipal partnerships ( Memento of July 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); Retrieved January 8, 2010