Santa Croce sull'Arno

Santa Croce sull'Arno
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Pisa  (PI)
Coordinates	43 ° 43 '  N , 10 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 43 '0 "  N , 10 ° 47' 0"  E
height	18  m slm
surface	16.99 km²
Residents	14,596 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	859 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	56029
prefix	0571
ISTAT number	050033
Popular name	Santacrocesi
Patron saint	Santa Cristiana (January 4th)
Website	Santa Croce sull'Arno municipality
Santa Croce sull'Arno

Santa Croce sull'Arno is an Italian municipality with 14,596 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Pisa in the Tuscany region .

geography

Location of the municipality in the province of Pisa

The community extends over approx. 17 km². It is about 45 km west of the regional capital Florence and 30 km east of the provincial capital Pisa on the Arno . The only district of Santa Croce is Staffoli, which as an exclave is not connected to the main town. The area in between belongs to the municipality of Castelfranco di Sotto .

The neighboring municipalities are Castelfranco di Sotto, Fucecchio ( FI ) and San Miniato .

history

Today's village was already inhabited by the Focolesi that, from the Elsa Valley coming, fleeing from the Goths and Lombards refuge on the Arno studied how fonts in the Biblioteca Riccardiana show di Firenze. The name of the settlement at that time was Viniale or Vignale. To the east was the Villa'Elmo settlement. The place name probably comes from a Byzantine crypt that was built by emigrants from Lucca under the name Volto Santo or Santa Croce (holy cross). Until the 10th century, the place was nothing more than a collection of houses controlled by the Counts Cadolingi dei Borgonuovo, until Count Kadulo dei Cadolingiche established the four parishes of San Vito, San Tommaso, Sant'Andrea and San Donato. In 1240 the current patron saint of the place, Santa Cristiana, was born in Santa Croce, at that time still under the name Oringa Menabuoi . Despite its own declaration of neutrality, the place got into the conflict between Ghibellines and Guelphs and the territorial disputes between Florence, Genoa , Lucca and Pisa in the 13th century . After the defeat of Ugolino della Gherardesca in the naval battle of Meloria in 1284, he was appointed Podestà , but had to cede the towns of Santa Croce and Fucecchio, Montecalvoli and Santa Maria a Monte to Florence. Under the rule of Florence, the place, like the surrounding communities, had a certain autonomy from Florence. During this time the city wall with four towers and the two city gates (Porta guelfa towards Florence and Porta ghibellina towards Pisa) were built. The first documents mentioning the place under the name Santa Croce date from 1284. In them it is mentioned as an autonomous commune under the jurisdiction of Florence. Uguccione della Faggiola conquered Lucca in 1314 and also the area around Santa Croce, but the Pisan occupation lasted only two years. Despite the peace treaty of 1317 by Robert von Anjou , Castruccio Castracani attacked Florence several times from 1320 to 1325 and Santa Croce was again occupied by Lucca. Around 1330/33 Santa Croce voluntarily came under the protection of Florence and with these the place came to the Duchy of Tuscany until it was occupied by the Napoleonic troops in 1799 . After the French withdrew in 1814, the Ferrovia Leopolda was completed in 1847 , a railway line that led to Empoli and brought the Habsburg-Lothringians to rule until 1852. Then the place entered the Kingdom of Italy with Tuscany . Due to the territorial or provincial reform of 1925 under Mussolini , some places in the province of Pisa changed to the province of Livorno , in return the province of Pisa received the places Castelfranco di Sotto , Montopoli in Val d'Arno , Santa Maria a Monte, San Miniato and Santa Croce sull 'Arno. Today the place is one of the largest tanning centers in the world.

Attractions

Chiesa di Santa Cristiana

Villa Vettori Bargagli in Santa Croce sull'Arno

• Chiesa di Santa Cristiana , a church built in 1711 and built over an oratory from the 13th century. Contains frescoes by Antonio Domenico Bamberini (1666–1741).
• Chiesa di San Rocco , church built in 1658
• Collegiata di San Lorenzo , 13th century
• Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo , church in the Staffoli district
• Teatro Verdi , opened in 1902
• Villa Vettori Bargagli

traffic

• Santa Croce sull'Arno is on the Strada di grande comunicazione Firenze-Pisa-Livorno .

sons and daughters of the town

• Oringa Menabuoi (1237-1310), Blessed
• Giovanni Lami (1697–1770), legal scholar, philologist and librarian
• Cristiano Banti (1824–1904), painter
• Don Backy (born 1939), singer and film actor

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: SANTA CROCE, SANTACROCE, o S. CROCE nel Val d'Arno inferiore. 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. 321 f.

Web links

Commons : Santa Croce sull'Arno  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the municipality of Santa Croce sull'Arno
• Website of the Pro Loco in Santa Croce sull'Arno

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
2. ↑ Pro Loco Santa Croce sull'Arno, accessed on March 18, 2010 (www.prolocosantacroce.it/personaggi.php, no longer available)
3. ↑ Rete Toscana, accessed on March 18, 2010 (www.retetoscana.it/luoghi/scroce_arno/indice.html, no longer available)
4. ^ Official website of the municipality of Santa Croce sull'Arno , accessed on March 18, 2010