Empoli

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Italian painter see Jacopo da Empoli .

Empoli
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
Metropolitan city	Florence  (FI)
Coordinates	43 ° 43 '  N , 10 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 43 '7 "  N , 10 ° 56' 33"  E
height	28  m slm
surface	62 km²
Residents	48,834 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	788 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	50053
prefix	0571
ISTAT number	048014
Popular name	Empolesi
Patron saint	Sant'Andrea (November 30th)
Website	City of Empoli
Empoli, the Piazza Farinata degli Uberti

Empoli is a city of 48,834 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian metropolitan city of Florence , Tuscany .

Location of Empoli in the metropolitan city of Florence

geography

The city on the Arno and Elsa rivers has an area of ​​62 km². It is located around 20 km west of the provincial and regional capital of Florence .

The districts include Avane, Corniola, Fontanella, Marcignana, Monterappoli, Pagnana, Ponte a Elsa, Pontormo and Pozzale.

The neighboring municipalities are Capraia e Limite , Castelfiorentino , Cerreto Guidi , Montelupo Fiorentino , Montespertoli , San Miniato ( PI ) and Vinci .

Attractions

• Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea from 1093; The following works by Lorenzo di Bicci can be seen in the museum :
  • Crocifissione di Cristo (panel painting, created in 1399, comes from the Church of Santo Stefano in Empoli, also called Compagnia della Croce or Vesta Nera )
  • Madonna con Bambino e Santi, Crocifissione di Cristo, Santi, Episodi della vita di San Martino, Sant'Andrea, Sant'Agata e San Giovanni Battista (triptych, panel painting)
  • San Tommaso riceve la cintura dalla Madonna assunta .
• In the center of the city at the Piazza Farinata degli Uberti you can see the marble fountain with the four lions from 1827. It comes from Luigi Pampaloni.

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  Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea with the Fontana del Pampaloni fountain

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  The altar of the Collegiata

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  In the museum of the Collegiata

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  Fontana delle Naiadi and Fontana del Pampaloni called

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  Porta Pisana

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  At the Piazza della Vittoria

economy

• The furniture, food, textile and glass industries are important economically.

Sports

• The local football club FC Empoli currently playing in Serie B .

Town twinning

Empoli is connected to through town twinning

• Aubervilliers in the Île de France region , France
• Besançon in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region , France
• Namur in Wallonia , Belgium
• St. Georgen an der Gusen , in Upper Austria
• Toledo in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha , Spain

sons and daughters of the town

• Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1557), painter, one of the main exponents of Florentine Mannerism, born in the district of Pontormo
• Vincenzo Chiarugi (1759-1820), psychiatrist
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), pianist and composer
• Francesco Maggini (1886–1964), Romanist and Italianist
• Marco Bagnoli (* 1949), installation artist, painter and draftsman
• Lorenzo Carboncini (* 1976), rower
• Manuele Mori (* 1980), racing cyclist

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: EMPOLI (Impolum, Empulum, Emporium) nel Val d'Arno inferiore. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian).

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Empoli
• Website of the Pro Loco in Empoli

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Empoli website