Ponte a Rigo

Ponte a Rigo
Panorama of Ponte a Rigo, in the background the town of Piancastagnaio , the Monte Labbro and on the right the Amiata
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Siena  (SI)
local community	San Casciano dei Bagni
Coordinates	42 ° 50 '  N , 11 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 49 '32 "  N , 11 ° 46' 40"  E
height	299  m slm
Residents	55 (2017)
Telephone code	0577	CAP	53040

Ponte a Rigo is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of San Casciano dei Bagni in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

Known as Borgo a Rigo in the Middle Ages, it is 9.7 km southwest of the main town of San Casciano dei Bagni and 65 km southeast of the provincial capital of Siena . The place lies on the rivers Rigo and Paglia , whereby the Rigo reaches the Rigo bridge (Ponte a Rigo) a few meters east of the village and then flows into the Paglia after about 500 meters. Here the Paglia forms the border with Latium , which lies to the south with the municipality of Proceno ( province of Viterbo ). This makes Ponte a Rigo the southernmost place in the Chiana Valley (Val di Chiana) and the southernmost place on the Via Francigena in Tuscany. Here several variants of the pilgrimage route meet again on the main path of the Via Cassia, such as the western Amiata variant via Bagni San Filippo , Abbadia San Salvatore and Piancastagnaio and the eastern variant via Radicofani and Celle sul Rigo (also part of San Casciano dei Bagni) . The place is 299 m and in 2001 had about 70 inhabitants. In 2017 there were 55 residents.

history

The place was first mentioned in writing in 1074 as Borgo a Rigo. 24 years later, Lanfranco, Bishop of Chiusi , gave the place to the monastery of San Salvatore di Monte Amiata .

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana Online edition of the University of Siena in Ponte a Rigo
• I percorsi della Via Francigena nelle terre di Siena , Editrice Le Balze, Montepulciano 2003, ISBN 88-7539-002-9 , p. 269 ff.

Web links

Commons : Ponte a Rigo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ponte a Rigo at Italia in dettaglio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website of Paesaggi culturali, termali e siti Unesco ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2011 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. , accessed February 1, 2012 (Italian) 
2. ↑ Official website of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (2001), accessed on February 18, 2018 (Italian)
3. ↑ Italia in dettaglio

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