Serre di Rapolano

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Serre di Rapolano
SerreDiRapolanoPanorama2.jpg
Panorama of Serre di Rapolano
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Siena  (SI)
local community Rapolano Terme
Coordinates 43 ° 15 '  N , 11 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 15 '28 "  N , 11 ° 37' 1"  E
height 350  m slm
Residents 1,358 (2001)
Telephone code 0577 CAP 53040

Serre di Rapolano is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Rapolano Terme in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

The Grancia and Porta San Lorenzo in Serre di Rapolano

geography

The district is located 3 km south of the capital Rapolano Terme and 25 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena at 350 m in the Crete Senesi and has about 1350 inhabitants. It is accessible via the three city gates Porta Serraia (also Porta del Cassero , located above near the fortifications), Porta dell'Apparita (formerly called Porta di San Lorenzo , located near the Grancia) and the lateral (southern) Porta di Sant'Andrea (also called Porta di Borgo or Porta Sclavi ), which leads to Via Valle di Piazza .

The historical center is divided into three terzieres . Below near the Grancia is the Terziere del Poggio , in the middle town the Terziere di Mezzo and above near the fortress and the Church of San Lorenzo the Terziere del Santo .

history

The place was probably built at the time of the Gothic War due to its favorable position and was then used by the Lombards . After their decline, local princes ruled the place. In the conflict of 1174 and 1175 between the neighboring Asciano and Siena, it was conquered by Siena, which was recognized by Asciano in 1198. Siena first gave the place to Arrigo Tommasi and in 1234 the family of Ildebrandino di Guido degli Scialenghi-Cacciaconti as a fief . In 1295, the head of the family Simone di Ranuccio di Cacciaconti donated parts of the southern inner-city area to the Hospital Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, who built a grancia ( tithe barn ) as a warehouse for the goods of the Crete Senesi. In 1405 the Grancia was turned into a fortress to protect the goods in conflict with Florence and other nearby cities. The tower and other parts of the building were destroyed in the war between Florence and Siena in 1555, but were rebuilt in 1575 by the rector Claudio Saracini. Production stopped in 1790. Now houses the Museo dell'Antica Grancia . Until 1777 the place was an independent municipality, then it came through the territorial reform Riforma Leopoldina of Leopold II as a district to Rapolano Terme.

Attractions

The church of Chiesa dei Santi Lorenzo e Andrea
The Palazzo Gori-Martini
The church Chiesa della Compagnia di Santa Caterina della Misericordia
The church of Chiesa della Madonna della Piaggia
The apse of Sant'Andreino
  • Chiesa dei Santi Lorenzo e Andrea , main church in the town center, which was previously dedicated to San Michele Arcangelo . Located in Piazza XX. Settembre and is also called Pieve di San Lorenzo. First documented in 1252, the campanile was built in 1893 . The lunette called Crocifissione is attributed to Luca di Tommè , the canvas painting Madonna che consegna il rosario a San Domenico ea Santa Caterina is by Alessandro Casolani . The works Gesù benedicente by Giovanni di Agostino and Santa Caterina da Siena (c. 1520) by Giovanni di Lorenzo are also exhibited here. Also contains the Cappella Cacciaconti with tombs of the Cacciaconti family attributed to Giovanni di Agostino and his father Agostino di Giovanni (tomb of Cacciaconte Cacciaconti, 1336).
  • Chiesa di Santa Caterina , also Compagnia di Santa Caterina della Misericordia called church , which was first documented in the 1622nd Contains works by Sebastiano Folli ( Maria Vergine in Gloria, Santa Caterina che riceve le stigmate davanti al Crocifisso ei Santi Rocco ed Elisabetta ) and Astolfo Petrazzi ( Santa Caterina che dà la veste al povero ).
  • Cassero or Castello , a former fortification in the north of the historic center near the Palazzo Gori and the Porta Serraia.
  • Cappella di Piazza , chapel in the center of the village. Renovated in 1922, it contains 14th century frescoes that were restored around 1980.
  • Cappella di San Rocco , also called Chiesa di San Rocco , chapel built in 1506 and dedicated to Rochus de Montpellier .
  • Cappella di Santa Maria Maddalena , Chapel of the Grancia, contains frescoes from the 13th century.
  • Grancia di Serre / Museo dell'Antica Grancia , former tithe barn and today's museum.
  • Palazzo Gori-Martini , palace owned by the Martini family since 1500 and later by the Gori-Martini.
  • Piazza dell'Orologio , main square with the Cappella di Piazza and the former Palazzo Comunale ( town hall ).
  • Porta Contapecore , approx. 1.50 meter high sheep counting gate in the historic town center.
  • Chiesa della Madonna della Piaggia , church just outside the town center on the road to San Gimignanello, which was built in 1407 by the Grancia.
  • Pieve di Sant'Andreino , Pieve outside the town center on the road to San Gimignanello. Was already 1178 by Pope Alexander III. Pieve mentioned as a branch of the Collegiata di Sant'Agata in Asciano.

traffic

The Serre di Rapolano junction is on the highway from Siena to the A1 and RA6 to Perugia .

economy

In the local area, mainly travertine was mined until the 2000s .

literature

Web links

Commons : Serre di Rapolano  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on February 8, 2018 (Italian)
  2. ↑ a b c Anna Maria Guiducci: I Luoghi della Fede: Le Crete senesi, la Val d'Arbia e la Val di Merse.
  3. ↑ Abbati p. 49
  4. ^ I percorsi della Via Francigena nelle terre di Siena , p. 135
  5. ↑ Official website of the municipality of Rapolano Terme for the Museo dell'Antica Grancia , accessed on October 13, 2011 (Italian)
  6. ↑ cretesenesi on the Palazzo Gori Martini in Serre di Rapolano, accessed on April 22, 2019 (Italian)
  7. ↑ cretesenesi on the Church of Madonna della Piaggia, accessed on April 22, 2019 (Italian)