Murlo

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Murlo
coat of arms
Murlo (Italy)
Murlo
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Siena  (SI)
Coordinates 43 ° 10 '  N , 11 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 10 '16 "  N , 11 ° 23' 32"  E
height 294  m slm
surface 114.79 km²
Residents 2,393 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 21 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 53016
prefix 0577
ISTAT number 052019
Popular name Murlesi
Patron saint San Fortunato (July 12)
Website Murlo municipality
Panorama of Murlo (left Vescovado, right Castello / Borgo Murlo)
Panorama of Murlo (left Vescovado, right Castello / Borgo Murlo)

Murlo is a municipality with 2393 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the Italian province of Siena in Tuscany .

geography

Location of Murlo in the province of Siena

The place extends over 115  km² . It is located about 20 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena and about 70 km southeast of the regional capital Florence . The place is in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone D, 1 846 GG. In the southeastern municipality, the Ombrone (3 km in the municipality) is the border river to Montalcino, in the southwestern part the Merse (7 km in the municipality) forms the border with Monticiano and Civitella Paganico. Not far from the towns of Crevole, Murlo, Miniera and Vescovado flows the Torrente Crevole , which spends 16 of its 16 km in the municipality of Murlo and then flows into the Ombrone from the right. Murlo is in the Archdiocese of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino .

The districts include Bagnaia (246 m, approx. 15 inhabitants), La Befa (151 m, approx. 25 inhabitants), Casanova (440 m, approx. 50 inhabitants), Casciano (also called Casciano di Murlo , second main town, 452 m, approx. 680 inhabitants), Fontazzi (310 m, approx. 40 inhabitants), Lupompesi (291 m, approx. 60 inhabitants), Miniera di Murlo (198 m, approx. 30 inhabitants), Montepescini (256 m, approx. 30 inhabitants), Murlo (also called Castello di Murlo , Borgo di Murlo and Murlo di Vescovado , eponymous place, 317 m, approx. 30 inhabitants), Poggiobrucoli (404 m, approx. 404 inhabitants), Poggiolodoli (400 m, approx. 30 inhabitants) and Vescovado (also called Vescovado di Murlo , first capital, 294 m, approx. 680 inhabitants).

The neighboring municipalities are Buonconvento , Civitella Paganico ( GR ), Montalcino , Monteroni d'Arbia , Monticiano and Sovicille .

history

Murlo is in the ancestral home of the Etruscans . Geneticists around the Turin-based biologist and evolutionary researcher Alberto Piazza and Etruscologists suspect that the inhabitants of the village - genetically speaking - could be the last living or direct descendants of the ancient Etruscans.

Murlo Castle was first mentioned in 1055 when Heinrich III. bequeathed properties to the diocese of Siena, including Crevole, Lupompesi and Murlo. In 1777, due to the territorial reform of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II , today's municipality emerged, which with its Podestà was still under Montalcino. During the French period, the place was under the Dipartimento dell'Ombrone from 1808 to 1814. Mining played a role from 1830, the Miniere di Murlo district was built south of Castello Murlo. The not far from the Torrente Crevole mine supplied brown coal and was run by a Turin company. In 1876 the Paris company Compagnia francese della Miniera di Pienza took over the mines, but closed the mines in 1894. From 1917 to 1949 the mines were active again. In 1866 the present municipality of Murlo was established.

Attractions

Panorama of the Castello di Murlo
The Antiquarium di Poggio Civitate Museo Archeologico in Castello Murlo
The Castello di Crevole
The Pieve a Carli
The ruined church of Santa Maria di Montespecchio
  • Archaeological site of Poggio Civitate (and Piano del Tesoro ), is about 1 km southeast of Castello Murlo. Was discovered by Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli in 1926 .
  • Antiquarium di Poggio Civitate Museo Archeologico , archeological museum established in 1988 in the Palazzo Vescovile (called Palazzone) in the Castello Murlo.
  • Pieve di Santa Maria a Carli , about 1 km north of the Miniera , former Pieve , was a parochial church until the 15th century. Was first established in 1189 by Pope Clement III. mentioned and is also called Pieve Vecchia.
  • Pieve di Santa Cecilia a Crevole , church at the entrance inside the Castello (Rocca) di Crevole. Was first established in 1189 by Pope Clement III. mentioned. The castle is also mentioned in the same document. It was expanded in 1325 on the initiative of the Archbishop of Siena , Donosdeo dei Malavolti. Suffered significant damage in the conflict between Siena and Florence when Crevole was captured in November 1554. From the Pieve comes the panel painting Madonna di Crevole by Duccio di Buoninsegna , which was created around 1283/1284 and is now in the Museo dell'Opera della Metropolitana at the Cathedral of Siena .
  • Pieve dei Santi Giusto e Clemente , parish church in the Casciano district. First mentioned around 1275.
  • Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo a Montepertuso , first documented church in 1214. Significantly damaged in the conflict between Siena and Florence in 1554 and fully restored in the 18th century. The triptych of Benvenuto di Giovanni comes from here and can be found today in the Chiesa di San Fortunato a Vescovado . In 1970 the church became inactive again, from 1997 it became active again through the Comunità Mondo Nuovo.
  • Chiesa di San Fortunato a Murlo , today's parish church in Castello Murlo. Was first mentioned in the 11th century and was severely damaged in the conflict between Siena and Florence in 1554. At the instigation of Senese Archbishop Francesco Bandini Piccolomini (1529–1588) the church was restored and expanded. Contains the work I Santi Biagio, Domenico, Caterina da Siena e Sebastiano in adorazione della Madonna col Bambino by Astolfo Petrazzi and the canvas painting L'Assunta con San Biagio e un Santo Vescovo by Dionisio Montorselli . The baptismal font probably dates from the late 17th century. The holy water fonts date from the 14th and 16th centuries.
  • Chiesa di San Fortunato a Vescovado , church consecrated in 1972 in the Vescovado district, which emerged from the church built in 1909 and destroyed by a flood in 1966. Contains Benvenuto di Giovanni the triptych Madonna in trono col Bambino, angeli musicanti ei Santi Caterina d'Alessandria, Michele Arcangelo, Biagio, Lucia, Cristo benedicente tra i Santi Ansano e Lorenzo . The work was created in 1475 and comes from Montepertuso.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Bagnaia , was mentioned as early as the 12th century as a branch of Sant'Eugenio in Siena and then came to the Pieve a Rosia in the 13th century . In 1589 it was assigned to the Pieve di Corsano (Pieve di San Giovanni Battista in what is now the municipality of Monteroni d'Arbia).
  • Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista a Campriano , church in the center of the city fortifications (Cassero). The place Campriano itself was first mentioned in 1081 as the property of the monks of Sant'Eugenio in a document from Henry IV , since 1151 the place has been referred to as a castle. From the end of the 12th century until 1251 it belonged to the Senese family Malavolti, then sold to the Tolomei. The Church is also mentioned for the first time in this document. The Tolomei bequeathed Campriano Castle to Santa Maria della Scala in Siena in 1310 .
  • Chiesa di San Biagio a Filetta , first mentioned in 1275.
  • Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo a Formignano , first mentioned in 1253.
  • Chiesa di Sant'Andrea a Frontignano , first mentioned in 1251 by Pope Innocent IV . Destroyed several times at the beginning of the 14th century and restored by the Republic of Siena in 1335. Another restoration took place in the 18th century by the Senese family of the Zondadari. The painting Madonna col Bambino, Sant'Apollonia, San Bernardino e Angeli , which was made around 1460 and is now in the Buonconvento Museum, comes from the church .
  • Cappella di Santa Maria Assunta alla Befa , chapel that served the Compania dei Celesti in the 17th century. The exact date of its creation is unknown, but it contained a triptych ( Assunzione della Vergine con San Tommaso tra i Santi Stefano e Sigismondo ) attributed to an artist from the Siena School of the late 15th century, so the church is dated to the same century. The triptych is now in the Buonconvento Museum (room IV).
  • Capella della Madonna del Carmine a Lumpompesi , a chapel in the Lumpompesi district, has existed since at least 1777, was later converted into private apartments.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Montepescini , first mentioned in 1189, which was remodeled in the 17th century. There are reproductions of works by Sodoma from the 16th century on the two altars .
  • Cappella di Santa Maria a Piantasala (also called Cappella di Santa Maria Assunta in Piantasala ), chapel in the Casciano district, which was built around 1514. Contains a fresco by Andrea di Niccolò from 1514.
  • Chiesa di San Giusto (a Rocca Gonfienti). Was built in the 15th century as the Church of the Grancia of the Santa Maria della Scala Hospital in Siena.
  • Chiesa di San Donato a Vallerano , a church that was built around 1055 and is now in private hands.
  • Chiesa di San Girolamo a Pompana , was built in 1602 on the initiative of Girolamo Turlanti. contained the panel painting Madonna col Bambino by Ambrogio Lorenzetti , which is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
  • Eremo di Montespecchio , also Santa Maria di Montespecchio or Conventaccio , a former convent and now a ruin. The convent was created around 1200 by the Augustinian order . It was abandoned in the 17th century.
  • Castel di Notte , first mentioned on May 15, 1391, north of Casciano.
  • Castello di Valresta , castle ruins near the Merse. Was first mentioned in 1202, the last mention comes from the year 1405. Today only the tower (9 × 7 m, approx. 10 m high) remains.

traffic

  • In the district of La Befa , about 10 km south of the main town, there is the Murlo train station , which is connected to the Siena – Grosseto railway line.
  • The Strada Statale 223 di Paganico runs through the western municipality.

Community partnerships

Murlo maintains a community partnership with:

Awards

literature

Web links

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

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 November 21, 2014 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  3. ↑ a b c Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Murlo , accessed on November 21, 2014 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Emanuele Repetti: MURLO DI VESCOVADO nella Valle dell'Ombrone sanese.
  5. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on November 21, 2014 (Italian)
  6. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Anna Maria Guiducci (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede: Le Crete senesi, la Val d'Arbia e la Val di Merse.
  7. ↑ Official history website of the municipality of Murlo , accessed on November 26, 2014 (Italian)
  8. ↑ Il Postalista zu Murlo , accessed on November 26, 2014 (Italian)
  9. ^ KM Phillips Jr .: Poggio Civitate. In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica (1973) , accessed November 21, 2014 (Italian)
  10. ^ A b Touring Club Italiano: Toscana.
  11. ↑ Silvia Nerucci in Musei Senesi , Nuova Immagine Editrice, Siena 2007, ISBN 978-88-7145-255-5 , pp. 248-255
  12. ^ The Pieve di Santa Maria a Carli on the Chiese Italiane website (Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici) , accessed on November 25, 2014 (Italian)
  13. ↑ a b c d e f g Stefano Campana: Carta archeologicadella provincia di Siena: Murlo.
  14. ↑ Duccio di Buoninsegna: Madonna di Crevole at Zeno.org, accessed on November 27, 2014
  15. ↑ a b c Pro Loco Murlo
  16. ↑ Maria Paola Angelini: Il Trittico della Befa. In: MurloCultura 2012 - No. 1, with ill., Accessed on November 27, 2014 (Italian)
  17. ↑ The Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Montepescini on the pages of Chiese Italiane (Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici) , accessed on November 25, 2014 (Italian)
  18. ↑ The Church of Santa Maria a Piantasala on the pages of Chiese Italiane (Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici) , accessed on November 25, 2014 (Italian)
  19. ↑ Geopaesaggi della Toscana website of the University of Siena on the Eremo di Montespecchio , accessed on February 21, 2017 (Italian)
  20. ↑ Website of the Comité de jumelage giberville-murlo ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the parish partnership of Giberville and Murlo, accessed on November 21, 2014 (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jumelagegibervillemurlo.net
  21. ↑ Official website of the Associazione dei Paesi Bandiera Arancione zu Murlo , accessed on November 25, 2014 (Italian)