San Marcello Pistoiese

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San Marcello Pistoiese
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Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Pistoia  (PT)
local community San Marcello Piteglio
Coordinates 44 ° 3 '  N , 10 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 3 '20 "  N , 10 ° 47' 27"  E
height 623  m slm
Residents 1,610 (2011)
patron San Marcello , Santa Celestina (September 8th)
Telephone code 0573 CAP 51028

San Marcello Pistoiese is a former municipality in the Italian province of Pistoia , in the Tuscany region . San Marcello Pistoiese belongs today as a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) to the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio .

geography

San Marcello Pistoiese is located at 623 m slm approx. 17 km northwest of the provincial capital Pistoia and approx. 50 km northwest of the regional capital Florence in the climatic classification of Italian communities in zone E, 2,813 GG.

The most important bodies of water in the former municipal area include the Reno River , which only touches the area briefly at Pontepetri, and the Torrenti Bardalone (every 4 km in the municipality), Lima (6 of 42 km in the municipality), Limestre (every 7 km in the municipality ), Maresca (every 8 km in the municipality), Orsigna (2 of 6 km in the municipality), Verdiana (every 11 km in the municipality) and Volata (every 6 km in the municipality). Here the Bardalone, the Maresca and the Orsigna flow to the Reno, the other rivers belong to the river system of the Serchio .

The fractions of the community included Campo Tizzoro (715 m, approx. 2655 inhabitants), Gavinana (819 m, approx. 760 inhabitants), La Lima (450 m, approx. 120 inhabitants), Lancisa (775 m, approx. 25 inhabitants ), Limestre (630 m, approx. 145 inhabitants), Lizzano (also called Lizzano Pistoiese , 725 m, approx. 140 inhabitants), Mammiano (650 m, approx. 185 inhabitants), Mammiano Basso (463 m, approx. 50 inhabitants ), Pontepetri (669 m, approx. 150 inhabitants), Spignana (780 m, approx. 80 inhabitants) and Vizzaneta (736 m, approx. 30 inhabitants).

The neighboring communities were Cutigliano , Fanano ( province of Modena ), Pistoia , Lizzano in Belvedere ( metropolitan city of Bologna ) and Piteglio .

history

The former municipalities of San Marcello Pistoiese and Piteglio merged on January 1, 2017 to form the new municipality of San Marcello Piteglio .

Attractions

  • Pieve di San Marcello , for the first time in 1085 mentioned Pieve in the center that the Marcellus I. is dedicated. Contains frescoes from 1788 by Giuseppe Gricci and works by Agostino Ciampelli ( Invenzione della Croce ) and Gaetano Zumbo ( Ecce Homo ).
  • Chiesa di Santa Caterina , church in the center, which was built from 1530.
  • Chiesa di Sant'Isidoro a Pontepetri , church in the district of Pontepetri from the 18th century.
  • Chiesa di San Biagio a Mammiano , church in the district of Mammiano.
  • Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a Gavinana , Pieve from the 11th century. Contains the work Madonna del Rosario (1638) by Domenico Pugliani and works ascribed to Benedetto Buglioni .
  • Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a Lizzano , Pieve in the district of Lizzano, which was already mentioned in 998 and was destroyed by a landslide. Was rebuilt after 1814. Contains the work Vergine Assunta by Filippo Tarchiani , a Crocifisso (wood, attributed) by Baccio da Montelupo , and work attributed to the Della Robbia .
  • Ponte sospeso di San Marcello Pistoiese (also called Ponte Sospeso delle Ferriere ), suspension bridge over the Lima River between Mammiano Basso and Popiglio. Was built by Vincenzo Douglas Scotti from 1920 to 1922 and is 212.4 meters long. This makes it one of the longest pedestrian suspension bridges in the world.
  • Osservatorio Astronomico della Montagna Pistoiese , observatory

  • Pallone di Santa Celestina on September 8th

  • Propositura di San Marcello

  • Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta in Gavinana

  • Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Spignana

  • The suspension bridge

  • View from the bridge to the Lima, which flows approx. 36 meters below

Community partnerships

The place has had a municipal partnership with Saint-Martin-du-Tertre ( Département Val-d'Oise ) since 1987 .

Demographics

The former city arms

The former municipality of San Marcello Pistoiese had 6416 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015) on an area of ​​85 km².

literature

  • Emanuele Repetti: SAN MARCELLO, già MARCELLO nella Val di Lima. 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 88-365-2767-1 , p. 279.
  • Simone Fagioli: Ebrei e leggi antiebraiche nel comune di San Marcello Pistoiese 1938–1945 , in: QF Periodico dell'Istituto Storico della Resistenza e della Società Contemporanea nella Provincia di Pistoia, ns 4,5 (2002) 215–267. ( online , PDF)

Web links

Commons : San Marcello Pistoiese  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Frazione di San Marcello Pistoiese with the population figures from 2011, accessed on June 25, 2019 (Italian)
  2. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on October 20, 2013 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in San Marcello Pistoiese , accessed on October 20, 2013 (Italian)
  4. ↑ Comune di San Marcello Piteglio with the population figures from 2011, accessed on June 25, 2019 (Italian)
  5. ^ A b Touring Club Italiano: Toscana.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Regione Toscana: I luoghi della Fede (Montagna Pistoiese), online version , accessed on October 19, 2013 (Italian)
  7. ↑ The suspension bridge of Mammiano , accessed on June 25, 2019 (German)