Porcari

This article covers the Italian community in Tuscany. For further terms see Porcari (disambiguation) .

Porcari
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Lucca  (LU)
Coordinates	43 ° 50 '  N , 10 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 50 '29 "  N , 10 ° 37' 3"  E
height	32  m slm
surface	18 km²
Residents	8,911 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	495 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	55016
prefix	0583
ISTAT number	046026
Popular name	Porcaresi
Patron saint	San Giusto (on the Sunday after Pentecost)
Website	Porcari
Panorama of Porcari

Porcari is an Italian municipality in the province of Lucca in Tuscany with 8911 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

Location of the municipality of Porcari in the province of Lucca

Porcari is about 10 kilometers east of the provincial capital Lucca and 52 km west of the regional capital Florence in the Luccheser Plain in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone D, 1,676 GG.

The municipality includes the districts (fractions) Fratina (19 m), Padule (13 m) and Rughi .

The neighboring communities are Altopascio , Capannori and Montecarlo .

history

Porcari is first mentioned in a Longobard document from 780. The place was on the Via Francigena and the Via Cassia . Porcari had a castle since the 11th century. It served to defend Lucca until the 15th century and was later demolished. Politically, Porcari belonged to Lucca and eventually came to Italy with this area. Porcari has been an independent municipality since 1913, before that it belonged to Capannori .

The paper industry is particularly important in the economy.

Attractions

The church of San Giusto in the town center

Natività di Maria , church in the Rughi district

• Chiesa di San Giusto , church that was built on the site of the old church of San Giovanni Battista in the 15th century. Was substantially renewed in 1745 and only completed with the completion of the facade in 1884. Contains a cycle of frescoes by Michele Marcucci from the early 20th century.
• Chiesa della Natività di Maria , church in the Rughi district. Was built as a house of prayer for the Rughi hospital, which was opened in the 12th and 13th centuries. It was mentioned in the 17th century and was first documented in 1456 as the Oratorio di S. Maria di Rughi . In 1931/33 the church was expanded and restored. Further restorations took place in 1982 and 2015. Contains the panel painting Madonna e il Bambino tra San Girolamo e un Martire by an unknown artist from Lucca from the 16th century.
• Sacro Cuore di Gesù , church in the Padule district, built in 1912/1913.
• Fossa Nera , archaeological site. During the excavations in 1987, the remains of a village from the Bronze Age , remains of an Etruscan settlement and Roman buildings were found.

traffic

• Porcari is on the A 11 motorway that connects Florence with Pisa and Lucca. The place does not have its own junction, the closest are Capannori in the southwest (approx. 3 km from the village) and Altopascio in the southeast (approx. 6 km from the village).
• The municipality has the Porcari train station (approx. 1 km south of the town center) on the Florence- Viareggio railway line .

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: PORCARI PRESSO IL LAGO DI SESTO nella Valle orientale di Lucca. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian)

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality of Porcari
• I luoghi della Fede (Lucca, Piana di Lucca)

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 18, 2014 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
3. ↑ ^{a b} I Luoghi della Fede.
4. ↑ Chiesa della Natività di Maria Santissima <Rughi, Porcari> from Chiese Italiane, accessed on June 24, 2018 (Italian)
5. ↑ Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Gesù <Padule, Porcari> from Chiese Italiane, accessed on June 24, 2018 (Italian)
6. ↑ Terre di Lucca e di Versilia on Fossa Nera , accessed on June 24, 2018 (Italian)

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