Fonterutoli

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Fonterutoli is a district of Castellina in Chianti in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

Panorama of Fonterutoli with Siena in the background
Panorama of Fonterutoli

geography

The place is about 4.5 km southeast of the main town Castellina in Chianti and 13 km north of the provincial capital Siena in the western part of the Chianti senese east of the Elsa valley (Val d'Elsa) at 502 m and has about 80 inhabitants. The place Quercegrossa (district of Monteriggioni and Castelnuovo Berardenga ) is about 5 km south, Vagliagli (Castelnuovo Berardenga) is about 4 km southeast, Staggia Senese (now part of Poggibonsi ) is 10 km west. The Torrente Staggia rises at the Poggio di Fonte Rutoli (municipality of Radda in Chianti ) a few meters east of Fonterutoli .

history

The name comes from the name Fons Rutili (Fonte di Rutilio, dt. Well of Rutilio). The place was first mentioned historically in 998, when Otto III. defined the ecclesiastical areas of the dioceses of Arezzo , Fiesole and Siena . The first owners of the castle were the gentlemen from Staggia Senese . The Vallombrosaner of Badia a Passignano ( Abbazia di San Michele , today belongs to Barberino Tavarnelle ) maintained the church of San Miniato, this was in 1177 by Pope Alexander III. confirmed in a document. On March 29, 1201, the representatives of Siena and Florence met in this church to negotiate on Montalcino and Semifonte (is now in the municipality of Barberino Tavarnelle near the district of Petrognano, was forcibly captured and destroyed by Florence in 1202). Six years later, on October 6, 1208, a meeting between the rulers of Siena and Florence took place in the castle, in which Siena renounced the area of ​​Poggibonsi. Further negotiations between the two republics took place here in 1245. Since 1435 the place has belonged to the Mazzei family, who have been growing wine there to this day. Considerable damage occurred in the place in 1944 when Fonterutoli suffered considerably from the Second World War .

Attractions

The San Miniato Church
Etruscan necropolis of Poggino
  • Chiesa di San Miniato , church in the town center. The interior was changed in the 17th century, the facade and the campanile were renewed in the 20th century.
  • Villa Mazzei , a 16th century building that integrated parts of the old fortifications. The garden was created at the end of the 19th century and is designed partly in the style of an English landscape garden and partly in that of an Italian , with the Italian probably originating first. The loggia on the garden side was built in 1921.
  • Necropoli del Poggino , Etruscan tombs just east of Fonterutoli. The five graves were built in the 7th and 5th centuries BC. Many excavations are now in the Museo Archeologico del Chianti senese (in the Castello di Castellina in Chianti ) in the main town of Castellina in Chianti.

traffic

  • Fonterutoli is on the state road Strada Statale 222 , also called Via Chiantigiana , which connects Siena with Florence.
  • The next stop on a railway line is in Castellina Scalo, a district of Monteriggioni. The station is about 9 km southwest on the Siena- Empoli railway line .

literature

  • Enrico Bosi, Giovanna Magi: I Castelli del Chianti. Bonechi Editrice, Florence 1979, ISBN 88-7009-000-0 , pp. 85 f.
  • Ovidio Guaita: Villa di Fonterutoli. In: Le ville della Toscana. Newton & Compton Editori, Rome 1997, ISBN 88-8183-787-0 , p. 378 ff.
  • Emanuele Repetti: FONTE RUTOLI (Fons Rutoli) in Val d'Elsa. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Emanuele Repetti: FONTE RUTOLI (Fons Rutoli) in Val d'Elsa.
  2. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on October 4, 2015 (Italian)
  3. ^ A b Ovidio Guaita: Le ville della Toscana.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Fondazione Musei Senesi. Eco Museo Chianti
  5. ↑ a b c Enrico Bosi, Giovanna Magi: I Castelli del Chianti.
  6. ↑ Emanuele Repetti: SEMIFONTE, SIMIFONTE, O SOMMOFONTE in Val d'Elsa. (pdf) In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846)
  7. ↑ EcoMuseoChianti on the burial sites Necropoli etrusca del Poggino di Fonterutoli , accessed on October 5, 2015 (Italian)
  8. ↑ Musei Senesi on the amphora Anfora attica dalla necropoli del Poggino di Fonterutoli in the Museo Archeologico del Chianti senese , accessed on October 5, 2015 (Italian)

Coordinates: 43 ° 26 '  N , 11 ° 18'  E