Ema (river)

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Ema
The Ema at Ponte a Ema (Bagno a Ripoli)

The Ema at Ponte a Ema (Bagno a Ripoli)

Data
location Tuscany ( Metropolitan City of Florence )
River system Arno
Drain over Greve (river)  → Arno  → Tyrrhenian Sea
River basin district Appennino Settentrionale
source West of Poggio alla Croce ( Greve in Chianti )
43 ° 39 ′ 7 ″  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 24 ″  E
muzzle Florence (district Galluzzo) in Greve Coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  E 43 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  E

length 27 km
Right tributaries Antella
Big cities Florence
Communities Bagno a Ripoli , Greve in Chianti , Impruneta

The Ema is a 27 km long river in the Tuscany region of Italy, which crosses the metropolitan city of Florence from south-east to north-west and flows into the Greve in Florence as a right tributary .

course

The Ema, formerly also Ima , rises approx. 1 km west of Poggio alla Croce and north of Monte Scalari (also Montescalari ) in the municipality of Greve in Chianti through the confluence of three sources (Fonte degli Aceri, Croce a Trogoli and Fonte delle Faule) . From here it first flows to the northwest and touches San Polo in Chianti (230 m, municipality of Greve in Chianti). Flowing further to the northwest, it serves as a border river between Greve in Chianti (a total of 12 km in the municipality), Impruneta (a total of 2 km in the municipality) and Bagno a Ripoli . Here it first encounters the districts of Capannuccia (103 m), Grassina and Ponte a Ema (87 m); At Ponte a Niccheri the Antella flows from the right , then the Ema crosses the A1 autostrada . After Ponte a Ema, the river turns west and joins that of Florence at Cascine del Riccio after 8 km in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli . Here it remains 6 km and then joins the Greve river as a right tributary below and just north of the Certosa San Lorenzo di Galluzzo and south of Galluzzo .

The Ema in Literature (Dante)

The Ema was already mentioned by Dante Alighieri in the Paradiso of his Divine Comedy (Canto 16, 142–144).

  • Molti sarebber lieti, che son tristi, se Dio t'avesse conceduto ad Ema, la prima volta ch'a città venisti
  • German in the translation by Karl Streckfuß : Many would be happy who fear now, If God the Ema wed you when you went to town for the first time.
  • Dante is referring to Buondelmonte de 'Buondelmonti (died in Florence in 1216), whom many Fiorentines would have preferred to see dead in the Ema before his arrival in Florence. This is based on the conflict with Oderrigo de 'Fifanti (Oddo Arrighi), who was injured on the arm with a knife. In order to resolve the conflict, Buondelmonte was supposed to marry a niece of Oddo from the Amidei family, but canceled the marriage at the last moment because he had fallen in love with Aldrada Donati. The Arrighi responded to the renewed insult with a murder plot on the Ponte Vecchio , in which Buondelmonte died. The conflict between the parties was never resolved and resulted in rivalry between the Ghibellines and Guelphs .

photos

  • The Ema just before Ponte a Ema (Bagno a Ripoli)

  • The Ema at Galuzzo (Florence)

  • Confluence of the Ema (above) and Greve (right) in Galuzzo below the Certosa San Lorenzo

literature

  • Giorgio Battini: Il fiume racconta. Viaggio nella Toscana dei fiumi. , Bonechi, Florence 1993, ISBN 88-7009-941-5 , pp. 33-36.
  • Emanuele Repetti: EMA (Ima). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA)
  2. ↑ a b c Emanuele Repetti: EMA (Ima). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana
  3. ↑ a b c Giorgio Battini: Il fiume racconta. Viaggio nella Toscana dei fiumi.
  4. ↑ a b c Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the 2001 municipalities in the province of Florence, accessed on October 31, 2014 (Italian)
  5. ↑ Divina Comedia, Paradiso 16, 142-144 at Wikisource (Italian)
  6. ↑ s: Divine Comedy (Streckfuß 1876) / Paradiso Wikisource, accessed on October 31, 2014
  7. ↑ Buondelmónti, Buondelmonte at Enciclopedie on line, accessed on November 1, 2014 (Italian)