Mugnone (river)

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Mugnone
The Mugnone in Florence near Via Lungo Il Mugnone and Via Giovanni Boccaccio

The Mugnone in Florence near Via Lungo Il Mugnone and Via Giovanni Boccaccio

Data
location Metropolitan city of Florence , Tuscany , Italy
River system Arno
Drain over Arno  → Tyrrhenian Sea
source Vetta alle Croci, south of the municipality of Vaglia
43 ° 51 ′ 21 ″  N , 11 ° 19 ′ 12 ″  E
Source height 518  m slm
muzzle Florence Coordinates: 43 ° 47 '24 "  N , 11 ° 11' 47"  E 43 ° 47 '24 "  N , 11 ° 11' 47"  E

length 17 km
Right tributaries Mugoncello ( Rio delle Serre ), Terzolle

The Mugnone ( Latin Munio ) is a 17 km long river ( Torrente ) in Tuscany , which runs through the metropolitan city of Florence from north to south and flows into the Arno in Florence .

course

The Mugnone has its source in the southwestern part of the Mugello on the border with the Florentine Arno valley. It arises approx. 5 km southeast of Vaglia and approx. 2 km west of the district Pratolino between the Poggio di Pratolino and the Poggio dell'Olmo on the Vetta alle Croci . He crosses the municipality of Vaglia for a total of 2 km, then he enters that of Fiesole . Here it first meets the districts of Caldine at 167 m, where the Mugoncello ( coming from north of the Villa Medici of Pratolino , also called Rio delle Serre ) flows in from the right, and Pian di Mugnone (127 m). The river flows around the main town of Fiesole to the northwest and then reaches the Ponte alla Badia (118 m), whereby the historical bridge no longer exists and has been replaced by a modern stone bridge. Here it leaves the municipality of Fiesole after a total of 6 km and flows through Florence for the last 10 km. Here he meets the Ponte alle Reefs and then the Ponte Rosso , which was enlarged in 1765 for the arrival of Leopold II and lost its red color. His last meter spends the river as the northern boundary of the park Parco delle Cascine ( Cascine , lodgings 5 Rifredi), where from the right of the 10 km long Terzolle from Cercina ( Sesto Fiorentino Coming) to the Ponte di Mezzo at the height of Ponte San Donato flows and shortly afterwards the Ponte alle Mosse crosses under it then serves the Arno shortly before the bridge Ponte all'Indiano as a right tributary.

history

The river took a different course in ancient times and flowed to the Arno near the Ponte Vecchio , which was one of the reasons that the city was created at this point at the confluence of the two rivers Arno and Mugnone. In the course of the construction of the new city ​​walls of Florence in the 1280s, the river was diverted, with bridges over the Mugnone at the northern city gates Porta a San Gallo and Porta a Faenza (now part of the Fortezza da Basso ).

photos

  • The Mugnone in the Pian di Mugnone (Fiesole) district

  • The Mugnone and the original Ponte alla Badia in Fiesole on a painting by Giuseppe Zocchi (1744)

  • The Mugnone and today's Ponte alla Badia in Fiesole

  • The Mugnone and the Ponte Rosso bridge in Florence

  • The Mugnone flows into the Arno near the Ponte all'Indiano bridge in Florence

literature

  • Giorgio Battini: Il fiume racconta. Viaggio nella Toscana dei fiumi. , Bonechi, Florence 1993, ISBN 88-7009-941-5 , pp. 19-30.
  • Emanuele Repetti: MUGNONE torrente (Munio). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mugnone e Terzolle: Due Torrenti storici da salvaguardare. in Arpat News n. 039-2008 of March 19, 2008 of the Public Amministrazioni della Toscana centrale (a cura della Provincia di Firenze), accessed on August 21, 2013 (pdf, ital .; 816 kB)
  2. ↑ a b c d SIRA
  3. ↑ Emanuele Repetti: MUGNONE torrente (Munio). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846)
  4. ↑ a b c d e Giorgio Battini
  5. ↑ a b c Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) for the districts 2001 in the province of Florence, accessed on August 21, 2013 (ital.)
  6. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the Terzolle River (ital.) , Accessed on August 21, 2013 (ital.)