Fivizzano

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Fivizzano
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Fivizzano (Italy)
Fivizzano
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Massa-Carrara  (MS)
Coordinates 44 ° 14 '  N , 10 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 14 '21 "  N , 10 ° 7' 37"  E
height 326  m slm
surface 180.5 km²
Residents 7,478 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 41 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 54013
prefix 0585
ISTAT number 045007
Popular name Fivizzanesi
Patron saint Sant'Antonio abate (January 17th)
Website Fivizzano

Fivizzano is an Italian municipality with 7478 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Massa-Carrara in the Tuscany region .

geography

Location of Fivizzano in the province of Massa-Carrara

The community extends over approx. 180 km². It is located about 140 km northwest of the regional capital of Florence , about 35 km north of Massa and 30 km north of Carrara . The Aulella flows through the municipality (12 of 34 km in Fivizzano). Other important waters in the local area are the Torrenti Bardine (4 of 10 km), Lucido (with its tributaries Lucido di Equi and Lucido di Vinca), Mommio (13 of 13 km) and Rosaro (23 of 23 km).

The districts include Agnino, Agnolo, Aiola, Alebbio, Alebbio Casette, Alebbio Prato, Antigo, Arlia, Bardine di Cecina, Bardine di San Terenzo, Bottignana di Sopra, Bottignana di Sotto, Cà-Giannino, Campiglione, Canneto, Castelletto, Caugliano , Cecina, Cerignano, Cerri, Certaldola, Ceserano, Colla, Colle di Cerignano, Collecchia, Collecchia Piano, Collegnago, Colognola, Cormezzano, Corsano, Cortila, Cotto, Debicò, Equi Terme, Escaro, Fazzano, Fiacciano, Fivizzano, Folegnano, Gallogna , Gassano, Gragnola, Groppoli, Isolano, Lorano, Magliano, Maglietola, Mazzola, Mezzana, Molina di Equi, Mommio, Moncigoli, Montale, Montecurto, Monte dei Bianchi, Montevalese, Monzone Alto, Monzone Ponte, Motta, Mozzano, Mulina di Equi , Panigaletto, Pian di Molino, Piastorla, Pieve di Viano, Pieve San Paolo, Pò, Pognana, Posara di Sopra, Posara di Sotto, Pratolungo, Quarazzana, Rometta Apuana, San Terenzo, Sassalbo, Sercognano, Serraruola, Signano, Soliera Apuana, Spicciano, Stazione Rometta, Tenerife, T erenzano, Terma, Traggiara, Turano, Turlago, Uglianfreddo, Vallazzana, Vendaso, Verrucola, Verzano, Vezzanello, Viano, Vinca and Virolo.

The neighboring municipalities are Aulla , Carrara , Casola in Lunigiana , Comano , Fosdinovo , Licciana Nardi , Massa , Minucciano ( LU ), Sillano Giuncugnano (LU) and Ventasso ( RE ).

history

From the Middle Ages the place was under the Malaspina family until it came under the control of Florence in 1477. A year later they built the city walls, which were renewed in 1540. The place has been called Città nobile since 1849 . In 1920 the community was shaken by a severe earthquake.

During the Second World War , on July 13, 1944, 36 civilians were killed in an attack by Allied bombers in Fivizzano and parts of the city center were destroyed.

Between May and September 1944 there were massacres of the civilian population in six districts (Sassalbo, Mommio, San Terenzo, Bardine di San Terenzo, Vinca and Tenerano) by the German 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer SS" under the leadership of Walter Reder , partly supported by units of the Italian "Black Brigades" , in which over 400 residents were murdered, including women, children and old people.

Attractions

Piazza Medicea and Church of St. Jacopo and Antonio
Fortezza di Verrucola
The Malaspina -Castel dell'Aquila in Gragnola
  • Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Antonio , built in 1377 in the town center, contains the work Resurrezione di Lazzaro by Pietro Sorri .
  • Castello della Verrucola or Fortezza della Verrucola , a castle located just northeast of Fivizzano, which was first mentioned in 1044. Belonged first to the Malaspina and then to the Bosi. In the castle is the church of Chiesa di Santa Margherita (mentioned in 1148).
  • Castello dell'Aquila , castle in the Gragnola district.
  • Pieve di San Paolo di Vendaso , for the first time in 1148 mentioned Pieve in the district Vendaso.
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta di Pognana , church in the district of Pognana, which was mentioned as early as 1148.

Community partnerships

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Adolfo Bartoli (1833–1894), Romanist, Italianist and literary scholar
  • Renato Bertolini , called Vittorio Sarpi (1905–1983), communist, resistance fighter against National Socialism, Spain fighter and prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp
  • Denis Verdini (* 1951), politician
  • Sandro Bondi (* 1959), politician

literature

Web links

Commons : Fivizzano  - 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. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Fivizzano , accessed on February 11 (Italian)
  3. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Fivizzano , accessed on February 21, 2010 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Castelli Toscani to Castello della Verrucola , accessed on December 2, 2015 (Italian)
  5. ↑ a b c Valentino Baldacci (ed.): I Luoghi della Fede: Massa, Carrara e la Lunigiana.
  6. ↑ Castelli Toscani for Castello dell'Aquila in Gragnola , accessed on December 2, 2015 (Italian)