Settignano
Settignano is a hillside village northeast of Florence . Administratively it belongs to Quartier 2 (Campo di Marte) of Florence.
description
The name goes back to the Roman emperor Septimius Severus , the alleged founder of the place, which, like the neighboring Fiesole, was already valued in the Middle Ages as a cooler summer residence by Florentine families, as the Villa Gamberaia with its terrace garden still bears witness to today. Michelangelo spent his childhood here with a marble worker and his wife. Because of the nearby marble quarries of Maiano and Trassinaia, the place produced numerous sculptors: Desiderio da Settignano , whose works a. a. decorate the cathedral of Florence, Bartolomeo Ammanati , Antonio and Bernardo Rossellino as well as Giovanni Battista and Stoldo Lorenzi . The painter Bartolomeo Bimbi was also born here.
Giovanni Boccaccio and Niccolò Tommaseo appreciated the relaxing freshness of the place between vineyards and olive groves. Mark Twain lived with his wife in the Villa Viviani for eleven months from 1892-1893. In 1898 Gabriele d'Annunzio bought the Villa della Capponcina on the outskirts of Settignano in order to be closer to his lover Eleonora Duse , who lived in the Villa Porziuncola. The art historian Bernard Berenson lived in the Villa I Tatti ; Harvard University now has a center for art history here. Berenson's friend, the art collector and patron Leo Stein , moved here in 1914 after separating from his sister Gertrude and died here in 1947. Settignano is also the setting for Heinrich Mann's novella Pippo Spano .
Attractions
- Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta , church in the center of Settignano. Contains works by Santi di Tito .
Transport links
- The bus line 10 of the Florentine public transport company (ataf) runs every 20 minutes between the Florence central station and Settignano.
literature
- Emanuele Repetti: SETTIGNANO (Septinianum) nel Val d'Arno fiorentino. In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
Web links
Coordinates: 43 ° 48 ' N , 11 ° 15' E