Sillico (Tuscany)

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Sillico
SillicoPieveFoscianaPanorama2.jpg
Panorama of Sillico
Country Italy
region Tuscany
province Lucca  (LU)
local community Pieve Fosciana
Coordinates 44 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 7 '59 "  N , 10 ° 26' 39"  E
height 711  m slm
Residents 105 (2017)
Telephone code 0583 CAP 55036

Sillico is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Pieve Fosciana in the province of Lucca , Tuscany region in Italy .

geography

The place is about 2 km east of the main town Pieve Fosciana, about 33 km north of the provincial capital Lucca and about 80 km northwest of the regional capital Florence in the upper Serchio valley in the Garfagnana countryside . The place is 711 m and had about 90 inhabitants in 2001. In 2017 there were 105 inhabitants. A few meters west of the village flows the Torrente Sillico of the same name (coming from north to south, 13 km total length), it serves as a left tributary further south of the Serchio.

history

The place probably emerged only in Roman times , although many of the surrounding places were already settled by the Ligurians and Apuans . From the 10th century the place belonged to the Gherardinghi family, who with the support of the Popes and the allies from Pisa were able to hold out into the 13th century and around the 12th / 13th centuries. Century built the defense tower. In the conflict between Pisa and Lucca, the Gherardinghi were ultimately forced to cede the place to Lucca. In 1272 the new masters incorporated Sillico into the new Vicariate Vicaria di Castiglione . The nearby town of Capraia was assigned to Sillico in 1374. In a document from 1376, Charles IV called the place Castrum Sillici . In 1401 the place appears in the list of the castles of Paolo Guinigi, ruler of Lucca, to be restored . On December 17, 1429, shortly after the end of the Guinigi rule, the place rebelled against the rulers from Lucca and asked for support from Niccolò III. d'Este , which was also granted. The place was the first place in the Garfagnana that was under the Estense. The Estense then added the Sillico to the Vicariate Vicaria Estense di Castelnuovo . The place stayed here until the unification of Italy. In the 1950s the place still had about 350 inhabitants, today there are fewer than a hundred.

Attractions

The Church of San Lorenzo
The castle ruins (Rocca)
  • Chiesa di San Lorenzo (also SS. Lorenzo e Iacopo ), church in the town center, which was first mentioned in 1168 in a document by Pope Alexander III. was mentioned. The church was enlarged in the 18th century.
  • Torre di Sillico , former fortified tower of the castle (Rocca) at the highest point of the village. The Rocca was 10 × 14 meters in size and was built around the 15th century. The tower within the structure measures 6.5 × 6.5 meters and was built around the 12th or 13th century.
  • Town walls (only partially preserved) from the 15th century. Of the two city gates, only the south gate Porta Sud near the church of San Lorenzo has been preserved.

literature

  • Emanuele Repetti: SILICO, o SILLICO DI GARFAGNANA nella Valle superiore del Serchio. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online version of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)

Web links

Commons : Sillico  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Emanuele Repetti: SILICO, o SILLICO DI GARFAGNANA nella Valle superiore del Serchio.
  2. ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Lucca, accessed on May 2, 2016 (Italian)
  3. ↑ Italia in dettaglio to Pontecosi
  4. ↑ Official website of the Sistema Informativo Ambientale della Regione Toscana (SIRA) on the Sillico River , accessed on May 2, 2016 (Italian)
  5. ↑ a b Contado Lucchese
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Sillico: topografia di un borgo fortificato medievale.