Gallina (Tuscany)

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Gallina
GallinaCastiglionedOrciaPanorama1.jpg
Panorama of Gallina
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Siena  (SI)
local community Castiglione d'Orcia
Coordinates 43 ° 0 '  N , 11 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 0 '2 "  N , 11 ° 40' 59"  E
height 316  m slm
Residents 140 (2017)
Telephone code 0577 CAP 53023

Gallina is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Castiglione d'Orcia in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

The place is about 5 km east of the capital Castiglione d'Orcia, about 45 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena , about 100 km southeast of the regional capital Florence and about 160 km northwest of the Italian capital Rome in the Orciatal at 316 m. The place had 157 inhabitants in 2001, in 2017 there were 140 inhabitants. The 43rd parallel north runs through the town . The river Orcia flows about 1.5 km north of Gallina, the Torrente Vellora about 500 m east.

history

At first the place was known as Osteria della Scala . This was named after the La Scala farm , which served as a hospital and post office on the Via Francigena (first mentioned in 1562, badly damaged in a fire in 1760). Initially, the place consisted of the courtyards (Poderi or Fattorie) La Poderina , La Rimbecca , La Scala and Le Briccole , today's center was not built until the post-war period.

Attractions

The church of Santa Maria dei Campi
The Church of San Pellegrino alle Briccole
The former La Scala post office (left) with church (right)
  • Santa Maria dei Campi , church in the center from the 1970s.
  • Chiesa de la Scala ( Chiesina de la Scala ), church near the La Scala courtyard. Was in ruins until the 2010s and has been restored afterwards. The courtyard served as a post office from the 16th to the 19th century.
  • San Pellegrino , Romanesque church of the court (Italian Podere ) Le Briccole (Briccole di Sotto, also Bricule, Bricola, Bricus) and the former hospital (Hospitalis S. Peregrini Obricicolis) of the Camaldolese from Vivo d'Orcia . The farm is located south of Gallina and was built in the 11th century, the church and the hospital belonged to the monastery of Santa Mustiola (della Rosa) in Siena from 1438. In 1088 Mathilde von Tuszien was a guest in the village, in 1191 Philippe Auguste . Other guests were Arnold von Brescia , Gregory VII and Carlo d'Angio . The place is mentioned as Abricula in the records of Sigeric the Serious to the Via Francigena. He is here as XI. Station listed.
  • Ponte di Pian di Maggio (also Ponte Nove Luci or Ponte sull'Orcia ), bridge over the Orcia river towards Pienza with nine arches. Fell victim to the flood of November 28, 2012.

traffic

  • Gallina lies on a variant of the Via Francigena .
  • The Via Cassia runs through the village as the SR 2 regional road today.

photos

  • The church ruins of La Scala (2006)

  • The Church of La Scala (2017)

  • The 43rd parallel north runs through Gallina

  • The 2012 destroyed Orcia bridge Ponte di Pian di Maggio (Ponte Nove Luci)

  • The river Vellora near Gallina

literature

  • Stella Patitucci Uggeri: La Via Francigena e altre strade della Toscana medievale. Edizioni All'Insegna del Giglio, Florence 2004, p. 71 ( online version at Google Books )
  • Emanuele Repetti: BRICOLA, o LE BRICOLE nella Val d'Orcia. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian)

Web links

Commons : Gallina (Castiglione d'Orcia)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b italia in dettaglio
  2. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on February 9, 2018 (Italian)
  3. ↑ a b Val d'Orcia Senese
  4. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on Torrente Vellora , accessed on February 9, 2018 (Italian)
  5. ↑ a b ISSP Prato
  6. ↑ Il Tirreno on the Church of Santa Maria dei Campi, accessed on February 7, 2018 (Italian)
  7. ↑ a b Archeospot.it on Briccole , accessed on February 2, 2018 (Italian)
  8. ↑ a b c Stella Patitucci Uggeri: La Via Francigena e altre strade della Toscana medievale.
  9. ↑ Emanuele Repetti: BRICOLA, O LE Bricole nella Val d'Orcia.
  10. ↑ La Via Francigena ; Official website of the municipality of Castiglione d'Orcia on Via Francigena , accessed on February 9, 2018 (Italian)
  11. ^ Fabio Pellegrini: Crolla lo storico ponte di Pian di Maggio. Not ha retto alla violenza del fiume. In: Online version Corriere di Siena of November 30, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2018 (Italian)
  12. ↑ La mia terra di Siena on the Ponte Nove Luci bridge , accessed on February 9, 2018 (Italian)