Giuncarico

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Giuncarico
GiuncaricoGavorranoPanorama7.jpg
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Grosseto  (GR)
local community Gavorrano
Coordinates 42 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 54 '25 "  N , 10 ° 59' 31"  E
height 170  m slm
Residents 449 (2011)
Telephone code 0566 CAP 58023

Giuncarico is a fraction of the Italian municipality of Gavorrano in the province of Grosseto , region of Tuscany .

geography

The place is about 7 km southeast of the capital Gavorrano and about 19 km northwest of the provincial capital Grosseto in the Maremma . Giuncarico is 170 m and has about 400 inhabitants. Approx. The river Bruna flows 2 km to the east and forms the municipal boundary between Gavorrano and Roccastrada and Grosseto. Other places in the immediate vicinity are in the northeast Ribolla (district of Roccastrada, approx. 8 km), in the east Sticciano (also Roccastrada, approx. 10 km), in the southeast Montepescali (district of Grosseto, approx. 8 km) and Vetulonia (district from Castiglione della Pescaia , approx. 6 km south).

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in a document of the monastery of San Salvatore di Monte Amiata from the year 772. In the 11th century the place is referred to as fortified (fortificata) and belonged to the area of ​​the abbey of Sestinga. In the 13th century the area was under the Aldobrandeschi , but the direct control of the place was under the family of the Pannocchieschi d'Elci di Trivale . In the same century, they submitted to Siena , but retained power in the place until the 15th century. After the Senese defeat against Florence in 1555, the place became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .

Attractions

The main gate Porta del Castello with the apse of the Church of Sant'Egidio. The church's campanile is located directly above the main gate of the ramparts.
  • Chiesa di Sant'Egidio , church in the town center near the fortification gate. First mentioned in 1267. The campanile was built in the 15th century. The painting Madonna del Rosario con Santa Caterina da Siena e San Domenico dates from the early 18th century and comes from the environment of the Senese artists. The facade of the church was built around 1930.
  • Oratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso , church just outside the town center. Was built in 1892 to replace the previous church, Chiesa della Confraternita di San Bernardino . This probably came from the 15th century.
  • Poggio Pelliccia , tomb of an Etruscan family (from Vetulonia) just outside Giuncarico. The tomb, also called Tomba a thòlos , was discovered in 1972 and dates from the 7th century BC. Chr.
  • San Germano , necropolis with more than 20 graves just outside of Giuncarico. Located near the Torrente Sovata . The necropolis of San Germano was built in the 6th century BC. Chr.

traffic

  • The closest junction to long-distance traffic is the Giuncarico junction on the Strada Statale SS 1 state road ( Via Aurelia , approx. 4 km).
  • The place was connected to the rail traffic via the Stazione di Giuncarico station and was on the Livorno- Grosseto railway line . From 1892 to 1960 the station was the terminus of the approximately 8 km long Ribolla- Giuncarico line. At that time, the station was used to transship goods from the Ribolla mines, which were closed in the years following the 1954 mine disaster.

Sons and daughters of the place

photos

  • Panorama of Giuncarico, seen from the south

  • The church Chiesa di Sant'Egidio in the town center

  • The Oratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso just outside the town center.

  • The former Giuncarico Scalo train station (also Stazione di Giuncarico)

literature

  • Giuseppe Guerrini / Amministrazione Provinciale di Grosseto: Torri e Castelli della provincia di Grosseto. Nuova Immagine Edizioni, Siena 1999, ISBN 88-7145-154-6 , p. 49.
  • Emanuele Repetti: GIUNCARICO (Juncaricum) nella Maremma di Grosseto. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online version of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)
  • Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli, Maurizio Occhetti: Gavorrano. In: Bruno Santi: Guida Storico-Artistica alla Maremma. Nuova Immagine Edizioni, Siena 1995, ISBN 88-7145-093-0 , p. 69.
  • Bruno Santi (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede. Grosseto, Massa Marittima e la Maremma. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46786-X , p. 138 f.
  • Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , pp. 859 ff.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Emanuele Repetti: GIUNCARICO (Juncaricum) nella Maremma di Grosseto.
  2. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Grosseto, accessed on March 29, 2015 (Italian)
  3. ↑ a b Mavarelli / Occhetti: Gavorrano.
  4. ↑ a b c d Bruno Santi (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede. Grosseto, Massa Marittima e la Maremma.
  5. ↑ a b website ( memento of the original from March 4, 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. of the Pro Loco Gavorrano to Giuncarico, accessed on March 30, 2015 (Italian)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prolocogavorrano.it
  6. ↑ a b Website of the Sezione Didattica of the Soprintendenza per i beni Archeologici della Toscana, accessed on March 30, 2015 (pdf, Italian)
  7. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on Torrente Sovata, accessed on March 31, 2015 (Italian)
  8. ↑ ferrovieabbandonate.it on the former Ribolla-Giuncarico railway line , accessed on March 30, 2015 (Italian)