Paganico (Tuscany)

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Paganico is a district of the municipality of Civitella Paganico in the province of Grosseto , Tuscany region in Italy .

The place within the city walls on the main street Corso Fagarè, in the background the Cassero Senese with the Porta Senese

geography

The place is about 7 km south of the main town Civitella Marittima and about 23 km northeast of the provincial capital Grosseto . Siena is about 43 km north. The place is at 65  m slm and has about 830 inhabitants. It is located at the confluence of the Gretano and Lanzo rivers in the Ombrone . The Ombrone forms the border with Cinigiano (district Sasso d'Ombrone), in the southeast Paganico borders on Campagnatico .

The inner town is square and measures approx. 150 × 100 m, with the north-south connection (Corso Fagarè) being the longer. The city gate Porta Senese is integrated into the fortress Cassero Senese , the southern city gate is the Porta Grossetana . The western gate is the Porta Gorella , the eastern gate to the rivers and the associated city walls were lost. The center is divided into four Rioni , which correspond to the city gates, with the part of the lost wall parts called Centro . The Rioni have the respective city gates in their coat of arms, the Rione Centro the campanile of the church of San Michele Arcangelo.

history

The place emerged from 1262 on the decision of the Senese government as Borgo franco , which led to the first name Castel Franco di Paganico . The construction of the first city walls was approved by Siena in 1278. The newly planned and fortified place served as a tax-free marketplace for the Republic of Siena from 1294 and became a deanery in 1303 . In 1328 the place was besieged and occupied by Castruccio Castracani while he was on his way back from Montemassi . The first city fortifications were destroyed. The Senese government had the city walls and city gates rebuilt by Lando di Pietro in 1334, using parts of the old city walls. In 1363 the place suffered considerable damage from an attack by the Compagnia del Cappelletto mercenary group . After the defeat of the Senese Republic in 1555, the place fell first to Campagnatico, then to Antonio de 'Medici, the son of Francesco I de' Medici and Bianca Cappello . On May 5, 1630, the Senese family of Patrizi took the place as a fief . The Patrizi ruled until 1747, then Paganico returned to the Medici due to the lack of a heir. Later the place became an independent municipality and on February 5, 1928 part of the new municipality Civitella Paganico.

Attractions

The Church of San Michele Arcangelo
The ruins of the Madonna delle Febbri church
  • Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo , parish church built by the Humiliates from 1297 to 1345 . In 1571 the church became Pieve . The interiors were restored and redesigned from 1933 to 1963. The altar painting Madonna in trono col figlio ei santi Giovanni Battista, Michele, Guglielmo e Antonio Abate is by Guidoccio Cozzarelli ( painted around 1475), the painting on the left by Andrea di Niccolò ( Madonna in trono con il Bambino ei Santi Michele, Giovanni Battista, Gregorio Magno e Sebastiano , written around 1470). The wooden cymbal has five paintings ( Vergine , Cristo risorto , San Giovanni Battista , San Biagio and San Michele Arcangelo ) attributed to Bartolomeo Neroni and dating from around 1540. In the apse there is a cycle of frescoes by Biagio di Goro Ghezzi from 1368 with the works:
    • Proclamation (Annunciazione)
    • Nativity , Appearance of Saint Michael the Archangel on Monte Gargano , Saint Michael kills the dragon and Apparition of Saint Michael in the Castle of Sant'Angelo in Rome (Natività di Gesù, l'apparizione di San Michele Arcangelo sul Monte Gargano, San Michele che uccide il dragone, l'apparizione di San Michele in Castel Sant'Angelo a Roma)
    • The Epiphany and The Allegory of the Hereafter (Epifania, Allegoria dell'Oltretomba)
    • The four evangilists (I quattro Evangelisti)
    • Portrait of the six saints (below the archway, at the entrance to the apse)
  • Cassero Senese , fortress with defense tower and the city gate Porta Senese from the 13th century. Was converted into the Palazzo del Principe by Antonio de 'Medici in 1602 .
  • Palazzo Pretorio on Corso Fagarè, building from the 14th century with bi-porous windows . Was originally the seat of the magistrate of the Republic of Siena.
  • Palazzo del vecchio ospedale (Palace of the Old Hospital), 13th century building on Corso Fagarè near the Cassero Senese. The coat of arms of the Patrizi family from 1731 can be seen on the front.
  • City walls from the 14th century with the city gates
    • Porta Grossetana (main gate facing south or Grosseto)
    • Porta Senese (main gate facing north or Siena, part of the fortress Cassero Senese )
    • Porta Gorella (side gate facing west)
  • Chiesa della Madonna delle Febbri (also called Chiesina del Poggiarello or Santa Maria delle Grazie ), former church just outside the city walls in Località Poggiarello, which was built in the 18th century on a property belonging to the Patrizi.

traffic

Regular events

  • Palio della Granocchia , Palio , which takes place on the first Sunday in September and where the respective Rioni compete against each other with wheelbarrows and a frog .

photos

  • The gates of the fortified walls of Paganico

  • Cassero Senese with the Porta Senese

  • Porta Grossetana

  • Porta Gorella seen from the inside

literature

  • Giuseppe Guerrini / Amministrazione Provinciale di Grosseto: Torri e Castelli della provincia di Grosseto. Nuova Immagine Edizioni, Siena 1999, ISBN 88-7145-154-6
  • Emanuele Repetti: PAGANICO, già CASTEL FRANCO DI PAGANICO, nella Valle dell'Ombrone sanese. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
  • Felicia Rotundo, Fabio Torchio: Civitella Paganico. In: Bruno Santi: Guida Storico-Artistica alla Maremma. Nuova Immagine Edizioni, Siena 1995, ISBN 88-7145-093-0
  • Bruno Santi (Ed.): I Luoghi della Fede. Grosseto, Massa Marittima e la Maremma. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46786-X
  • Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , p. 841 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the 2001 population figures in the province of Grosseto, accessed on July 26, 2014 (Italian)
  2. ^ Website of the Pro Loco Paganico for Rione Centro , accessed on August 16, 2014 (Italian)
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Felicia Rotundo, Fabio Torchio: Civitella Paganico.
  4. ↑ a b c Emanuele Repetti: PAGANICO, già CASTEL FRANCO DI PAGANICO, nella Valle dell'Ombrone sanese.
  5. ^ A b Giuseppe Guerrini: Torri e Castelli della provincia di Grosseto.
  6. ↑ Website of the FAR Maremma - Fabbrica Ambiente Rurale Maremma for Civitella Paganico, accessed on August 15, 2014 (Italian)
  7. ^ A b Touring Club Italiano: Toscana.
  8. ↑ Website of the municipality of Civitella: The art treasures of the San Michele Arcangelo church ( Memento of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 42 ° 56 '  N , 11 ° 16'  E