Firenzuola (Tuscany)
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| Country | Italy | |
| region | Tuscany | |
| Metropolitan city | Florence (FI) | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 7 ' N , 11 ° 23' E | |
| height | 422 m slm | |
| surface | 272.06 km² | |
| Residents | 4,517 (Dec 31, 2019) | |
| Population density | 17 inhabitants / km² | |
| Post Code | 50033 | |
| prefix | 055 | |
| ISTAT number | 048018 | |
| Popular name | Firenzuolini | |
| Patron saint | San Giovanni Battista (June 24th) | |
| Website | Firenzuola | |
 Panorama of Firenzuola |
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Firenzuola is an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Florence with 4517 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Tuscany region .
geography
The municipality extends over about 272 km² . It is located around 40 km north of the provincial and regional capital Florence on the Futapass and Passo del Giogo in the Mugello landscape and on the rivers Santerno , Savena , Setta , Sillaro , Diaterna (districts of Bordignano and Caburaccia) and Violla . The Santerno rises in the municipality in the district Cornacchiaia ; the Savena also rises in the municipality on the mountain Sasso di Castro , but leaves the municipality and the province after a few meters to enter the metropolitan city of Bologna , as does the Setta, which only touches the municipality for 1 km, but enters from the province of Prato .
It is the northernmost municipality of the metropolitan city of Florence and borders the metropolitan city of Bologna in Emilia-Romagna . The place is in the climatic classification of Italian communities in Zone E, 2919 GG.
The districts include Barco, Bordignano, Borgo Santerno, Bruscoli, Caburaccia, Casanuova, Castelvecchio, Castro San Martino, Coniale, Cornacchiaia, Covigliaio, Giugnola, Le Valli, Montalbano, Moraduccio, Moscheta, Piancaldoli, Pietramala, San Martino, Rifredo, Castopredo , San Pellegrino, Segalari, Sigliola, Traversa, Valle Diaterna, Violla and Visignano.
The neighboring communities are Barberino di Mugello , Borgo San Lorenzo , Castel del Rio ( BO ), Castiglione dei Pepoli (BO), Monghidoro (BO), Monterenzio (BO), Palazzuolo sul Senio , San Benedetto Val di Sambro (BO) and Scarperia e San Piero .
history
Firenzuola was founded in the Middle Ages around 1306 by the Republic of Florence. The name Firenzuola comes from the suggestion of the historian Giovanni Villani, who chose piccola Firenze (Firenzuola), i.e. little Florence (or little Florence ) as a name. Castrum Florentiole Castle was founded in 1332 (as described in a document dated April 28, 1373) to control the borders between Guelph Florence and the sphere of influence of the Ghibelline Umberti family , who had their sphere of influence in the Mugello. As a municipality, the place was founded in the time of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany , probably around 1780, and has retained its borders to this day.
Monuments
- Cimitero Militare Germanico della Futa ( German military cemetery Futapass ), planned and built 1962–1967 by Dieter Oesterlen in collaboration with the garden architects Walter Rossow and Ernst Cramer and the sculptor Helmut Lander . It is the largest military cemetery established by the German War Graves Commission in Italy. There are around 30,000 graves here.
- There are also three memorial plaques on the Futapass for the athletes Clemente Biondetti , Gastone Nencini and Giulio Masetti .
Museums
- Museo della Pietra Serena , stone art museum
- Museo Storico Etnografico , also called Museo storico etnografico di Bruscoli , ethnographic mountain museum opened in 1994
Churches
- Badia di San Pietro a Moscheta , abbey in the district of Moscheta, which was built in 1034 by Johannes Gualbertus .
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista , the main church in the town center, which was rebuilt by Carlo Scarpa and Edoardo Detti after the Pieve di San Giovanni Battista was destroyed in World War II .
Personalities
- Angelo Simonetti (1861–1950), Bishop of Pescia, born in Firenzuola, temporarily deputy mayor of Firenzuola
literature
- Emanuele Repetti: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana. Online edition of the University of Siena on Firenzuola
- Touring Club Italiano : Firenze , Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-365-4345-8 , p. 634 fu 772 f.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Firenzuola (Italian)
- Firenzuola Stone Art Museum (English and Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
- ↑ http://www.paesionline.it/toscana/firenzuola/comune_firenzuola.asp , accessed on February 3, 2010
- ↑ 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 ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Florence, accessed on December 14, 2012 (Italian)
- ↑ http://www.zoomedia.it/Firenzuola/StoriaFir.html , accessed on February 3, 2010
- ↑ http://www.paesionline.it/toscana/firenzuola/comune_firenzuola.asp , accessed on February 3, 2010
- ↑ http://www.volksbund.de/kgs/stadt.asp?stadt=40 , accessed on February 3, 2010
- ↑ mugellotoscana.it: Museum of Pietra Serena , accessed on May 31, 2019 (English and Italian)
- ↑ Official website of the municipality of Firenzuola, accessed on August 9, 2012 ( Memento of the original from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
