Santa Luce

Santa Luce
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Pisa  (PI)
Coordinates	43 ° 28 '  N , 10 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 28 '23 "  N , 10 ° 33' 57"  E
height	225  m slm
surface	66.72 km²
Residents	1,619 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	24 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	56040
prefix	050
ISTAT number	050034
Popular name	Santalucesi
Patron saint	Santa Lucia (December 13th)
Website	www.comune.santaluce.pi.it
Panorama of Santa Luce

Santa Luce is a municipality with 1619 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Pisa in the Italian region of Tuscany .

geography

Location of Santa Luce in the province of Pisa

Santa Luce is located approx. 35 km south of the provincial capital Pisa and approx. 65 km southwest of the regional capital Florence in a hilly landscape, which is bordered in the west by the Colline Livornesi and in the east by the Colline Pisane . The place is in the climatic classification of Italian municipalities in zone D, 1 824 GR / G. The churches of the place are in the Archdiocese of Pisa . The main rivers in the municipality are the Fine River (17 of 30 km in the municipality, Ligurian Sea) and its tributary, the Torrente Savalano (6 of 14 km in the municipality) and the Torrente Tora ( Arno river system , 7 of 27 km in the municipality) .

Districts ( frazioni ) are, in addition to the main town, the settlements Pastina (210 m, approx. 280 inhabitants), Pieve di Santa Luce (152 m, approx. 100 inhabitants) and Pomaia (176 m, approx. 180 inhabitants).

Neighboring municipalities are Casciana Terme Lari , Castellina Marittima , Chianni , Crespina Lorenzana , Orciano Pisano and Rosignano Marittimo ( LI ).

history

The area of ​​the municipality was settled in Etruscan and Roman times, which is attested by the vases and urns found in Pastina and Pomaia. In the Middle Ages, the main town, known from 887 onwards, was a fortified castle owned by several families, including the Cadolingi from Fucecchio and the Upezzinghi from Pisa. In 1406, with the defeat of the Pisans, the place came to the Republic of Florence . In 1496 the castle was destroyed after an uprising against the Florentines.

From 1927 to 1957, Santa Luce and Orciano Pisano formed the municipality of Santa Luce Orciano . Then the place became an independent municipality again.

Culture and sights

Santa Lucia, church in the center of Santa Luce

Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta e di Sant'Angelo, Pieve Santa Luce

The district of Pomaia

In the main town of Santa Luce, the round floor plan of the medieval castle complex can still be seen.

Churches

• Chiesa di Santa Lucia - The parish church in the main town is a medieval building (mentioned in 1372), which was rebuilt from 1830 to 1840. The church was badly damaged by bombs in 1944.
• Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta e di Sant'Angelo - The church is located in the Pieve Santa Luce district and is dated to the year 887. The originally two-aisled Romanesque building was destroyed in an earthquake in 1846 and rebuilt using the old materials. Some elements of the previous building have been preserved, including column capitals and an octagonal baptismal font.
• Chiesa di San Bartolomeo - medieval church in the district of Pastina, which was rebuilt and renewed in 1839. Suffered severe damage during World War II in 1944. Contains the early 17th century canvas painting Madonna con i Santi Sebastiano, Lucia e Rocco .
• Santo Stefano Protomartire - Church in the Pomaia district.
• In the village of Monteforti, which has been abandoned since the 1970s, are the ruins of the pilgrimage church Santuario della Madonna .

Others

• Ecomuseo dell'alabastro - The museum with an exhibition on alabaster extraction and processing belongs to a museum network with two other facilities in Volterra and Castellina Marittima.
• Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa - The Buddhist Institute of the Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition at Pomaia was founded in 1977. It is one of the largest study centers of Tibetan Buddhism in Europe.
• The Lago di Santa Luce reservoir was created in the early 1960s by damming the Fine River and is used to supply the Solvay factory in Rosignano Marittimo with water. A bird sanctuary ( OASI LIPU Santa Luce ) has existed since 1992, and a nature reserve in the province of Pisa since 2000 ( Riserva naturale provinciale Lago di Santa Luce ).

economy

In Santa Luce agricultural products such as olive oil, wine, grain and honey are produced. In the past, alabaster and plaster were also mined and processed. There are also several agritourism businesses.

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: SANTA LUCE, o SANTA LUCE, in Val di Fine nelle Colline superiori pisane. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online version of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)

Web links

Commons : Santa Luce  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.comuni-italiani.it to Santa Luce
• I luoghi della Fede (Pisa, Valdera)

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 June 15, 2017 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
3. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the rivers in Santa Luce , accessed on June 15, 2017 (Italian)
4. ↑ Official website of the ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) for the districts 2001 in the province of Pisa, accessed on June 15, 2017 (Italian)
5. ↑ ^{a b} I Luoghi della Fede.
6. ↑ Ecomuseo dell'alabastro di Santa Luce on the pages of the Museo Galileo (IMSS-Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza), accessed on June 15, 2017 (Italian)
7. ↑ Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa , accessed on June 15, 2017 (English)
8. ↑ Oasi Santa Luce , accessed June 17, 2017 (Italian)