Piazze (Tuscany)

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Square
CetonaPiazzePanorama1.jpg
Panorama from Piazze
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Siena  (SI)
local community Cetona
Coordinates 42 ° 54 '  N , 11 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 54 '28 "  N , 11 ° 55' 0"  E
height 399  m slm
Residents 704 (2011)
Telephone code 0578 CAP 53040

Piazze is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Cetona in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

Panorama from Piazze (from the south)

The place is about 6 km south of the capital Cetona, about 65 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena and about 110 km southeast of the regional capital Florence . Italy's capital Rome is about 120 km southeast. The place is located southeast on a foothill of Monte Cetona (1148 m) in the Chiana valley (Val di Chiana) at 399 m and has about 700 inhabitants. The Torrente Fossalto (10 km total length) flows just south of the village . The closest place is next to the main town Cetona the main town of the municipality of San Casciano dei Bagni .

history

The place originated in the 16th century when the chapel initiated by Vittoria di Anton Maria Piccolomini from Camporsevoli was built. The first houses were built around this, which a few years later are given as twenty in a document from Camporsevoli Castle. The name of the place Piazze (dt. Places) are the places where coal was produced. These included the places Casa Chianella , Casa Masotti , Casa Piero , Casa Sarti . Sala and tamburino . The place belonged from the beginning to Camporsevoli (Camposervoli). Piazze was first documented in a donation in 1594, in which it was established that two churches belong to Camporsevoli: the church of San Giovanni near the castle and that of Piazze, called San Lazzaro. With the territorial reform of Grand Duke Leopold II , Piazze became part of San Casciano dei Bagni in 1777 and, under Napoleonic occupation, part of Cetona in 1808. In 1833 the place had 363 inhabitants.

Attractions

The church of San Lazzaro in the center of Piazze
Monumento ai Caduti , monument to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars
  • Chiesa di San Lazzaro , also San Lazzaro alle Piazze , former chapel and later church in the center from the early 16th century. First belonged to the diocese of Città della Pieve (today the Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve ) and then to the diocese of Montepulciano-Chiusi-Pienza . Documented as a chapel in 1525, initiated by Vittoria di Anton Maria Piccolomini.
  • Chiesa Santa Maria Immacolata , church in the center to the left of the Istituto Maria Immacolata and opposite San Lazzaro.
  • Cappella del Tamburino , chapel on Via Tamburino.
  • Monumento ai Caduti , monument to the fallen of the First and Second World Wars. Created in 1924 by Raffaello Romanelli on the initiative of Margrave Domenico Grossi from Camporsevoli. The plaque for the fallen of the Second World War was installed in 1987.

traffic

  • Piazze is connected to the A1 ( Autostrada del Sole ) via the Fabro junction . The junction is about 13 km southeast of Piazze.
  • The closest train station is that of Fabro in Fabro Scalo, about 14 km southeast of Piazze.

literature

Web links

Commons : Piazze (Cetona)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Laura Martini (ed.): I Luoghi della Fede: Montepulciano e la Valdichiana senese.
  2. ↑ a b c d Emanuele Repetti: PIAZZE nella Val di Chiana.
  3. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on December 10, 2016 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on Torrente Fossalto , accessed on December 10, 2016 (Italian)
  5. ↑ a b c Angelo Molaioli: Cetona. Ricordi per il futuro. Testimonials, photo, cartoline d'epoca per una storia scritta dalla gente.
  6. ↑ For Repetti in the online version indicated as 36, in the print edition as 362.
  7. ↑ Il Tirreno on the Church of San Lazzaro, accessed on December 10, 2016 (Italian)
  8. ↑ The Cappella del Tamburino on the pages of Chiese Italiane (Ufficio Nazionale per i Beni Culturali Ecclesiastici e Servizio Informatico della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana), accessed on December 10, 2014 (Italian)
  9. ↑ Centenario prima guerra mondiale 1914–1918. Website of the Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, accessed December 10, 2016 (Italian)