Torrenieri

Torrenieri
Panorama of Torrenieri
Country	Italy
region	Tuscany
province	Siena  (SI)
local community	Montalcino
Coordinates	43 ° 5 '  N , 11 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 5 '15 "  N , 11 ° 32' 53"  E
height	258  m slm
Residents	1,342 (2017)
Telephone code	0577	CAP	53024

Torrenieri is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Montalcino in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .

Panorama of Torrenieri

geography

The place is 5.6 km northeast of the capital Montalcino, 31 km southwest of the provincial capital Siena and 80 km south of the regional capital Florence . The place is located on the Via Francigena and the Asso river in the Val d'Orcia and Val d'Asso countryside at 258 m. In 2017 Torrenieri had 1,342 inhabitants.

history

The name either refers to the local ruler Ranieri de 'Signori di San Quirico from neighboring San Quirico d'Orcia or to the Italian name Torre Nera (black tower), which could have been created by a fire. The place became known under the name Turreiner by Sigerich the Serious , who mentioned the place in his manuscript for the Via Francigena. In the 10th century there was a castle on the right bank of the Asso, of which few parts can still be seen today. The city wall with two gates (one towards Siena, one towards Rome) was built between the 10th and 12th centuries. In 1235 the place was captured by Orvieto and set on fire. Border disputes with Montalcino required the intervention of Siena in 1295, which from 1384 to 1408 considerably expanded the fortifications. In the Seneser-Florentine conflict, the place was taken by Florence in 1552, three years before Siena also gave up. Until 1777, the place was an independent municipality, then it came through the regional reform Riforma Leopoldina of Leopold II as a district of Montalcino.

Attractions

The church of Santa Maria Maddalena

Oratorio della Compagnia di San Rocco

• Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena , church , contains the wooden statue Madonna col Bambino in trono by Domenico di Niccolò dei Cori . In a document from 1216, Pope Honorius III confirmed . the affiliation of the church to the Abbey of Sant'Antimo .
• Chiesa di San Rocco , also Oratorio della Compagnia di San Rocco , church in the town center, which was built around 1500.
• Monastero di San Piero ad Asso , ruined monastery , was built in the 8th century. Stones from the ruin were later used in the construction of the Montalcino Cathedral

Torrenieri in literature

The place is mentioned by Giovanni Boccaccio in the Decamerone (Ninth Day, Fourth Story).

Deh, perché non mi vuo'tu migliorar que'tre soldi? Non credi tu che io te li possa ancor servire? Deh, fallo, se ti cal di me: per che hai tu questa fretta? Noi giugnerem bene ancora stasera a Torrenieri. Fa truova la borsa: sappi che io potrei cercar tutta Siena, e non ve ne troverre'uno che so mi stesse ben come questo; ea dire che io il lasciassi a costui per trentotto soldi! Egli vale ancor quaranta o più, sì che tu mi piggiorresti in due modes. L'Angiulier, di gravissimo dolor punto, veggendosi rubare da costui e ora tenersi a parole, senza più rispondergli, voltata la testa del pallafreno, prese il cammin verso Torrenieri.

traffic

• The place is located on the historic Via Francigena and Via Cassia (today as the state road SS 2).
• The Torrenieri-Montalcino train station in the town center is on the Asciano-Monte Antico railway line and was active from 1865 to 1994.

literature

• Emanuele Repetti: TORRENIERI in Val d'Asso. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, Italian)
• Touring Club Italiano : Toscana. Milan 2003, ISBN 978-88-365-2767-0 , p. 649.

Web links

• Official website of the municipality of Montalcino in Torrenieri
• Official website of the Province of Siena on Via Francigena and Torrenieri
• Terre di Siena to Torrenieri

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Emanuele Repetti: Torrenieri in Val d'Asso.
2. ↑ italia.indettaglio.it on Torrenieri , accessed on January 4, 2018 (Italian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Terre di Siena.
4. ↑ Official website of the Province of Siena on Via Francigena and Torrenieri, accessed on January 12, 2012 (Italian)
5. ↑ Official website of the Tuscany region for the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena , accessed on January 12, 2012 (Italian)
6. ^ Emanuele Repetti: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana for the Monastero di San Pietro , accessed on January 12, 2012 (Italian)
7. ↑ The Decamerone at Wikisource (Italian) ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

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