Pratovecchio Stia

Pratovecchio Stia
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Arezzo  (AR)
Coordinates	43 ° 48 '  N , 11 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 48 '14 "  N , 11 ° 42' 34"  E
height	441  m slm
surface	138.13 km²
Residents	5,580 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density	40 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	55015 Pratovecchio, 55017 Stia
prefix	0575
ISTAT number	051041
Popular name	Pratovecchini and Stiani
Patron saint	depending on the district
Website	Pratovecchio Stia municipality
Panorama of Pratovecchio

Pratovecchio Stia is a municipality with 5580 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Arezzo , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

Location of Pratovecchio Stia in the province of Arezzo

The place is about 39 km north of the provincial capital Arezzo and about 36 km east of the regional capital Florence . The municipality is located in the Casentino countryside on the Arno and its tributary Staggia .

The neighboring municipalities are Bagno di Romagna ( FC ), Castel San Niccolò , Londa ( FI ), Montemignaio , Pelago (FI), Poppi , Rufina (FI), San Godenzo (FI) and Santa Sofia (FC).

history

The municipality was created on January 1, 2014 by merging the previously independent municipalities of Pratovecchio and Stia . In the referendum on October 6 and 7, 2013, 77.27% (49.84% turnout) in Pratovecchio voted in favor of the union, in Stia 81.20% (52.39% turnout). The law merging the two municipalities is Legge Regionale n.70 of November 22, 2013. The town hall is located in Stia. As early as 1929, the place Pratovecchio Stia was created by merging with the neighboring municipality of Stia . This restored the administrative unit from 1872, when Pratovecchio was allocated to different parishes. Due to the dissatisfaction of both places about this merger, the places were separated again in 1934.

Community partnerships

Pratovecchio Stia maintains municipal partnerships with:

• Bad Hall , Austria
• Kolbermoor , Bavaria , Germany
• Mynämäki , Finland
• Olbernhau , Saxony , Germany
• Oude IJsselstreek , Netherlands
• Uffenheim , Bavaria, Germany
• Ybbsitz , Austria

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anselmo Giabbani (* 1908 in Stia; † 2004), Prior General of the Camaldolese
• Cristoforo Landino (* 1425 in Pratovecchio; † 1498), humanist and poet
• Bernardo Tanucci (* 1698 in Stia; † 1783), Neapolitan statesman

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: PRATO VECCHIO (Pratum vetus) nel Val d'Arno casentinese. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
• Emanuele Repetti: STIA (Stagia) nel Val d'Arno casentinese. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
• Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 978-88-365-2767-0 , pp. 804 ff.

Web links

Commons : Pratovecchio Stia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Pratovecchio Stia
• Pratovecchio Stia at tuttitalia.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Il Comune di Pratovecchio Stia (AR) , tuttitalia.it on the new municipality of Pratovecchio Stia, accessed on March 11, 2014 (ital.)
3. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Pratovecchio on the municipal partnerships , accessed on March 11, 2014 (Italian)