Ponsacco

Ponsacco
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Pisa  (PI)
Coordinates	43 ° 37 '  N , 10 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 37 '29 "  N , 10 ° 37' 48"  E
height	24  m slm
surface	19.90 km²
Residents	15,614 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	785 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	56038
prefix	0587
ISTAT number	050028
Popular name	Ponsacchini
Patron saint	San Costanzo Martire
Website	Ponsacco
Panorama of Ponsacco

Ponsacco is an Italian commune with 15,614 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Pisa in the Tuscany region .

Location of Ponsacco in the province of Pisa

geography

The municipality is located about 50 km southwest of Florence and 20 km southeast of Pisa . The place is on the rivers Era and Cascina , which converge here near the center of the village, and in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone D, 1,874 GG

The districts include Camugliano, Le Melorie and Val di Cava. The neighboring municipalities are Capannoli , Casciana Terme Lari and Pontedera .

history

The place was first mentioned under the name Pontem Sacci on February 17, 1197 in a document from the Archdiocese of Lucca . Due to its location, the municipality and its districts were the scene of wars between Pisa, Lucca and Florence several times in the Middle Ages and the republic changed several times between that of the Pisans and the Fiorentine. When the Republic of Florence completely destroyed the castles and surrounding villages of Appiano and Petriolo in the war against Pisa in 1341, their inhabitants found refuge in the Castello Ponte di Sacco . In 1365 the place was equipped with a city wall, the still existing historical town center was built and an irrigation system was built, which was fed by the Cascina river. With the defeat of Pisa, Ponsacco also came under Fiorentine rule in 1406, but was recaptured in 1494. In 1509 the place fell back to Florence, the towers and large parts of the city wall were destroyed.

Attractions

• Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista , built in 1374 and completed in 1836 in the center of the village
• Villa Medici of Camugliano (also Villa Niccolini ), Medici villa built in 1533

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  Ponsacco, Corso principale

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  The town hall

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  Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista

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  Interior of the church

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  Villa Medici of Camugliano

traffic

• The place is on the Strada di grande comunicazione Firenze-Pisa-Livorno expressway .

Community partnerships

Ponsacco has partnerships with the following cities and municipalities:

• Nanoro , Burkina Faso
• Treuchtlingen , Germany
• Brignais , France

Sons and daughters of the church

• Luciano Chiarugi (born 1947), football player

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: PONSACCO, già PONTE DI SACCO (Pons Sacci) in Val d'Era. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian).
• Touring Club Italiano : Toscana , Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , p. 481.

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Ponsacco
• Website of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Ponsacco

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 24, 2013 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Official website of the municipality on the history of Ponsacco ( Memento of the original of December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 24, 2013 (Italian)