Gambassi Terme

Gambassi Terme
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
Metropolitan city	Florence  (FI)
Coordinates	43 ° 32 '  N , 10 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 32 '16 "  N , 10 ° 57' 12"  E
height	332  m slm
surface	83 km²
Residents	4,790 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	58 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	50050
prefix	0571
ISTAT number	048020
Popular name	Gambassini
Patron saint	San Sebastiano (January 20th)
Website	Gambassi Terme
Panorama of Gambassi Terme

Gambassi Terme is an Italian municipality with 4790 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Florence in the Tuscany region .

geography

Location of Gambassi Terme in the metropolitan city of Florence

The municipality is located around 40 km southwest of the provincial and regional capital of Florence on the Via Francigena . It lies in the climatic classification of Italian communities in Zone E, 2 273 GG and in the Elsatal .

The most important bodies of water in the municipality are the Elsa River , which spends 6 km in the village, and the Torrente Egola (4 of a total of 33 km). Both later flow to the Arno on the left.

The districts include Badia a Cerreto (70 m, approx. 900 inhabitants), Case Nuove (52 m, approx. 500 inhabitants), Catignano (177 m, approx. 50 inhabitants), Pillo (162 m, approx. 100 inhabitants) and Varna (187 m, approx. 100 inhabitants).

The neighboring municipalities are Castelfiorentino , Certaldo , Montaione , San Gimignano ( SI ) and Volterra ( PI ).

history

The place itself dates from the Etruscan era , probably in the 7th century BC. Settled for the first time. The castle Castello di Gambassi was documented for the first time on January 9, 1037 as the property of Guido del fu Ranieri and encompassed today's historic town center. Until 1113 the place belonged to Count Conte Ugo del fu Uguccione de 'Cadolingi. In the 12th century Gambassi Volterra was annexed and at the beginning of the 13th century the place San Gimignano was assigned, but in 1294 it fell to the Republic of Florence. In 1322 Gambassi was allowed by Florence to raise his own statutes.

Until 1917 the municipality was part of Montaione . Then it became an independent municipality together with Castagno, Catignano and Varna. This separation was preceded by a dispute over the budget and reallocations lasting about twenty years.

economy

• Gambassi Terme has been known for glass production since the Middle Ages up to the present day . Glass production was first mentioned in writing in 1276, when eight manufacturing companies were listed in the documents.
• The thermal springs of Acqua Salsa di Pillo have been used since the 14th century and have since been converted into a modern thermal bath . In the municipality, parts of thermal facilities were also found that go back to the Etruscan and Roman times and are now exhibited in the town hall.

Attractions

Chiesa di Cristo Re (also Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Stefano )

The church of Sant'Andrea a Gavignalla

The church of San Frediano a Montignoso

Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a Chianni

• Chiesa di Cristo Re (also called Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e Stefano ), church built in 1941 at the entrance to Gambassi Terme near the older Chiesa di San Luca (also Chiesa degli Agostiniani ), which was destroyed in 1786 . Contains by Biagio di Antonio Tucci the work Madonna tra i santi Giovanni Battista e Girolamo and by Pier Francesco Fiorentino the painting Vergine col Bambino in trono tra i Santi Giovanni, Francesco, Matteo e Jacopo .
• Chiesa di Santa Cristina , church built in 1935 just outside the village on Via Volterrana in the direction of Montaione / Volterra .
• Sant'Andrea a Gavignalla , church in Gavignalla first mentioned at the beginning of the 13th century.
• Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista a Varna , already mentioned in 1230 church in the district of Varna. The baptismal font dates from 1785.
• San Giuseppe Artigiano , church in Castagno Val d'Elsa.
• Pieve di San Frediano a Montignoso , documented already on March 3, 1144 Pieve in the district Montignoso.
• Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a Chianni , a pieve that was mentioned as a place by Sigerich the Serious in his notes on the Via Francigena around 994. The current church dates from the 12th century.
• San Martino , church in Catignano.
• Abbazia di San Pietro a Cerreto , abbey in the Badia a Cerreto district. The Hermitage was built between 1059 and 1072 by the Camaldolese . The church contained the work Incoronazione della Vergine by Lorenzo Monaco (1414 for the Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, moved to Cerreto at the end of the 16th century), which is now in the Uffizi . In return, the Florentine city council had a painting by Francesco Soderini ( Vergine col Bambino tra i Santi Monaca e Agostino , 1726) exhibited here.
• La produione vetraria a Gambassi tra XIII and XVII secolo (The glass production in Gambassi between the 13th and 17th centuries), permanent exhibition since 1996 with four sections (Sezioni). Most of the exhibits were found in excavations in 1983 in Via delle Campane and in Piazza del Castello (1995 to 1998).
  • Sezione I: La produione del vetro in Italia (glass production in Italy)
  • Sezione II: La tecnologia del vetro preindustriale (Pre-industrial techniques of glass production)
  • Sezione III: La vita quotidiana nei luoghi di produione di Gambassi (Everyday life in the glass-making places around Gambassi)
  • Sezione IV: La produione del vetro lungo la Via Francigena (The glass production along the Via Francigena)
• Parco comunale , public park just outside the historic town center (Castello), was formerly part of the Villa Sinnai . Was bought in 1916 by the Niccoli family , who enriched the park with elements from Africa. The park has been owned by the municipality since the 1930s.

traffic

The place is cut off from long-distance traffic. The nearest interchanges to trunk roads are in Poggibonsi on the Raccordo autostradale 3 (Florence-Siena, approx. 22 km away) or in Empoli on the Strada di grande comunicazione Firenze-Pisa-Livorno (approx. 25 km away). The closest railway stops are in Certaldo and Castelfiorentino, both around 9 km away.

The historic Via Francigena ran through the town. The Francigena is here the same course as the Via Cassia , which is also known as the Via Clodia in older documents . In addition, the place is on Via Volterrana , which leads from Castelfiorentino to Volterra.

Community partnerships

Gambassi Terme has a community partnership with:

• La Croix-Valmer , France .

Sons and daughters of the church

• Francesco Livi († around 1439), glass painter
• Pietro Chesi (1902–1944), racing cyclist

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: GAMBASSI in Val d'Elsa. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian)
• Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. Edizioni Cooperativa Firenze, Florence 2001, ISBN 88-88206-00-0 , p. 78 ff.
• Touring Club Italiano : Firenze. Touring Editore, Milan 2007, ISBN 978-88-365-4345-8 , p. 744 f.
• Giuliano Valdes: Le Terre di Leonardo e Boccaccio. Felici Editore, Pisa 2004, ISBN 88-88327-58-4 , p. 112 ff.

Web links

Commons : Gambassi Terme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Gambassi Terme
• Gambassi Terme at Comuni Italiani
• I luoghi della Fede (Firenze, VALDARNO INFERIORE E VALDELSA FIORENTINA)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on October 4, 2013 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Gambassi Terme , accessed on October 4, 2013 (Italian)
4. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Florence, accessed on October 4, 2013 (Italian)
5. ^ ^{A b} Emanuele Repetti: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana.
6. ↑ Visitvaldelsa.com: Storia di Gambassi Terme e del borgo medievale abitato fin dagli etruschi, il castello di Gambassi e l'arte del vetro , accessed on May 17, 2019 (Italian)
7. ↑ Visitvaldelsa.com: Arte del vetro a Gambassi , accessed on May 17, 2019 (Italian)
8. ^ Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. P. 82.
9. ↑ Visitvaldelsa.com: Acqua Salsa di Pillo , accessed May 17, 2019 (Italian)
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Italian Touring Club: Firenze
11. ↑ ^{a b c} I Luoghi della Fede.
12. ↑ SULLA FRANCIGENA. La chiesa di S. Andrea come 800 anni fa. In: Il Terreno. Article dated November 13, 2000, accessed August 5, 2018 (Italian)
13. ^ Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza IMSS of the Museo Galileo , accessed on September 27, 2011 (Italian)
14. ^ Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. Pp. 80-104.
15. ^ Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. Pp. 80-83.
16. ^ Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. Pp. 83-94.
17. ^ Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. Pp. 95-103.
18. ^ Sistema Museale della Valdelsa Fiorentina (ed.): Una via dell'arte in Toscana. Pp. 103-104.
19. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Gambassi Terme on municipal partnerships , accessed on October 4, 2013 (Italian)

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