Pescaglia

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Pescaglia
Template: Infobox municipality in Italy / maintenance / coat of arms missingNo coat of arms available.
Pescaglia (Italy)
Pescaglia
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Lucca  (LU)
Coordinates 43 ° 58 '  N , 10 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 58 '2 "  N , 10 ° 24' 44"  E
height 504  m slm
surface 70 km²
Residents 3,371 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density 48 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 55064
prefix 0583
ISTAT number 046022
Popular name Pescaglini
Patron saint Madonna della Solca (August 21)
Website Pescaglia
View of Pescaglia
View of Pescaglia

Pescaglia is an Italian municipality in the province of Lucca in Tuscany with 3371 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Location of the municipality of Pescaglia in the province of Lucca

The municipality is located about 15 km northwest of the provincial capital Lucca and about 70 km northwest of the regional capital Florence in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone E, 2,695 GG in the western Serchio Valley . Important bodies of water in the municipal area are the Torrenti Turrite Cava , Turrite di San Rocco (7 of 7 km in the municipality), Freddana (3 of 19 km in the municipality), Pedogna (12 of 16 km in the municipality), Pescaglia (every 4 km in the municipality ) and Vinciola (every 5 km in the municipality), which all belong to the Serchio river system.

The districts (Frazioni) Aiola - Il Colletto (612 m, approx. 80 inhabitants), Celle ( Celle dei Puccini , 371 m, approx. 50 inhabitants), Colognora (585 m, approx. 60 inhabitants), Convalle ( 350 m, approx. 100 inhabitants), Focchia (615 m, approx. 20 inhabitants), Gello (481 m, approx. 130 inhabitants), Loppeglia - Fiano (370 m, approx. 500 inhabitants), Pascoso (654 m, approx . 70 inhabitants), Piegaio Alto (348 m, approx. 50 inhabitants), Piegaio Basso (250 m, approx. 120 inhabitants), San Martino in Freddana - Monsagrati (73 m, approx. 1200 inhabitants), San Rocco in Turrite , Torcigliano (238 m, approx. 30 inhabitants), Trebbio (278 m, approx. 120 inhabitants), Vetriano (482 m, approx. 80 inhabitants) and Villa a Roggio (279 m, approx. 80 inhabitants). The main town Pescaglia has about 200 inhabitants.

The neighboring municipalities are Borgo a Mozzano , Camaiore , Fabbriche di Vergemoli , Lucca and Stazzema .

history

Today's main town emerged from the medieval towns of Piazzanello , Villabuona and Poggio , Poggio being the oldest and mentioned as a fief of the Ronaldinghi family as early as the 11th century. The place was also documented in a document from Pope Alexander II in 1062. Today's community was established in 1837 when the place became independent from Borgo a Mozzano.

Attractions

The main church of Pietro e Paolo
The Church of San Martino in Freddana
  • Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo , main church in the third ( terziere ) of Piazzanello.
  • Chiesa di San Martino in Freddana , Church in Freddana. Was already mentioned in 768.
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta , church in the district of Loppeglia, which was mentioned as early as 1260.
  • Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo , church in the district of Fiano, which was mentioned as early as 1260.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Ippolito e Cassiano , church in the Gello district, dates from the 12th century.
  • Oratorio di Santa Zita , 1864 in honor of St. Zita chapel near Monsagrati. Probably built over the saint's birthplace.
  • Pieve di San Giovanni Battista a Monsagrati , Pieve from 1102 .
  • Chiesa di Sant'Elisabetta , church in the district of Celle dei Puccini. Was built in 1601 and expanded in 1789.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Giuda , church in the district of Convalle. Was built in 1158 and expanded in 1644.
  • Museo del Castagno , chestnut museum in the district of Colognora.
  • Chiesa dei Santi Michele e Caterina , first mentioned in 1048 in the district of Colognora.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Zita de Lucca (1212 (or 1218) –1272), saint who was born in the Monsagrati district
  • Jacopo Puccini (1712–1781), composer, born in the district of Celle dei Puccini

literature

Web links

Commons : Pescaglia  - 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 February 27, 2016 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  3. ^ A b Emanuele Repetti: PESCAGLIA nella Valle del Serchio.
  4. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Pescaglia , accessed on March 1, 2016 (Italian)
  5. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on the districts and population figures 2001 in the province of Lucca, accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  6. ↑ a b Contado Lucchese: Pescaglia , accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  7. ↑ a b c Contado Lucchese: I borghi di Pescaglia , accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  8. ↑ Arcidiocesi di Lucca to the Chiesa dei Santi Ippolito e Cassiano in Gello , website of the Archdiocese of Lucca , accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  9. ↑ a b Arcidiocesi di Lucca to Pieve di San Giovanni Battista a Monsagrati , website of the Archdiocese of Lucca, accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  10. ↑ Arcidiocesi di Lucca for the Chiesa di Sant'Elisabetta in Celle dei Puccini , website of the Archdiocese of Lucca, accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  11. ↑ Arcidiocesi di Lucca for the Chiesa dei Santi Simone e Giuda in Convalle , website of the Archdiocese of Lucca, accessed on February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  12. ^ Museo del Castagno in Colognora, accessed on February 29, 2016 (Italian)
  13. ↑ Chiesa dei SS. Michele e Caterina on the pages of the Museo del Castagno, accessed on March 1, 2016 (Italian)
  14. ^ Parrocchie to Santa Zita , accessed February 28, 2016 (Italian)
  15. ↑ Lucchesi nel Mondo , accessed on February 27, 2016 (English)