Umbertide

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Umbertide
coat of arms
Umbertide (Italy)
Umbertide
Country Italy
region Umbria
province Perugia  (PG)
Coordinates 43 ° 18 ′  N , 12 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E
height 247  m slm
surface 200 km²
Residents 16,598 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 83 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 06019
prefix 075
ISTAT number 054056
Popular name Umbertidesi
Patron saint Madonna della Reggia
(September 8th)
Website Umbertide
View of Umbertide
View of Umbertide

Umbertide is a small town in the Umbrian province of Perugia in Italy with 16,598 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

The municipality is located on the left bank of the Tiber , in a green hilly landscape, which is dominated by the image of the highest point in the area, the mountain Monte Acuto with its 926 meters. The city is 247 meters above sea level and the area is about 200 km². The place is about 25 km north of the provincial and regional capital Perugia in the climatic classification of Italian municipalities in Zone E, 2 192 GG. The churches of Umbertide belong to the diocese of Città di Castello and the Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve .

The districts include Badia di Montecorona , Bastia Creti , Borgo Baraglia (236 m), Calzolaro (273 m), Comunaglia (236 m), Galera , Molino Vitelli (270 m), Montecastelli (263 m), Monestevole , Niccone (249 m) m), Nestore , Pian d'Assino (241 m), Polgeto (429 m), Pierantonio (247 m), Preggio (613 m), Racchiusole , Romeggio , Ranchi , San Silvestro delle Arcelle , Spedalicchio (281 m) and Verna (260 m).

The neighboring municipalities are Città di Castello , Cortona ( AR ), Gubbio , Lisciano Niccone , Magione , Montone , Passignano sul Trasimeno , Perugia and Pietralunga .

history

The place was first documented in 1189 as Fracta filiorum Uberti . On January 25, 1863, the place name Fratta was changed to Umbertide . The place was under Perugia from 1189, when Ugolino di Uguccione donated his lands to Perugia. In 1362 the place received its statutes, which were confirmed in 1521. The historic town center was badly damaged during the French occupation and during the Second World War .

Attractions

Piazza Giacomo Matteotti
La Rocca, the former prison
  • Santa Maria della Reggia , church just outside the city wall, built from 1559. Includes the painting Trasfigurazione , dated 1578, by Niccolò Circignani .
  • San Bernardino , former church in Borgo Inferiore , built in 1426 and restored in 1768.
  • Santa Croce , former church in Borgo Inferiore , built in 1610. Today it is a museum and contains Luca Signorelli 's Deposizione della Croce , created in 1516.
  • San Francesco , church in the Borgo Inferiore , 14th century.
  • Santa Maria della Pietà , church north of the town center, built in 1486. Contains works attributed to the Pinturicchio .
  • Abbazia di San Salvatore di Montecorona . The monastery was founded by St. Romuald as a Camaldolese abbey around 1008. The three-nave church was restored in the 1970s . In the raised choir there is a ciborium from the 8th century. The five-aisled crypt is actually a "lower church" , for whose columns and capitals ancient and early medieval building materials were used.
  • Santi Cassiano e Ippolito , church on the road to Verna, first mentioned in 1126 in a document from Pope Honorius II .
  • San Pietro , church in the Montecastelli district, built between 1890 and 1897.
  • Madonna del Sasso , church in Polgeto, 12th century.
  • San Bartolomeo dei Fossi , today's church ruins on the road to Preggio, which were built around 1350.
  • Madonna delle Grazie , church in the Preggio district, 15th century.
  • Santissima Trinità in San Francesco , church in the Preggio district, 12th century, first mentioned in 1163 as Canonica SS Trinità de Pejo.

  • Santa Maria della Reggia

  • Santa Croce and San Francesco

  • Santa Maria della Pietà

  • Santi Cassiano e Ippolito

  • San Bartolomeo dei Fossi

economy

The economy of the municipality of Umbertide is traditional and is based on the income from agriculture (production of olive oil , wine , grain , tobacco and on cattle and pig breeding ); But today the industrial establishments located here (in the areas of: textiles , metal and mechanical engineering , food and building materials), the local handicrafts (in the field of ceramics and wood processing) and tourism ensure the area considerable resources.

sons and daughters of the town

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Touring Club Italiano: Umbria.
  3. ↑ Website of the Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l'energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), accessed on May 14, 2018 (Italian) (PDF; 330 kB)
  4. ↑ Height information : Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)
  5. ↑ La storia e le origini della città - The origins and history of the town , official website of Umbertide, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian and English)
  6. ↑ Online edition of La Repubblica on the Church of Santi Cassiano e Ippolito, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)
  7. ↑ Online edition of La Repubblica on the Church of San Pietro, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)
  8. ↑ Chiesa della Madonna del Sasso ‹Polgeto, Umbertide› , website Chiese Italiane, Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici e l'edilizia di culto e Servizio Informatico della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)
  9. ↑ Chiesa di San Bartolomeo dei Fossi ‹Preggio, Umbertide› , website Chiese Italiane, Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici e l'edilizia di culto e Servizio Informatico della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)
  10. ↑ Chiesa della Madonna delle Grazie ‹Preggio, Umbertide› , website Chiese Italiane, Ufficio Nazionale per i beni culturali ecclesiastici e l'edilizia di culto e Servizio Informatico della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)
  11. ↑ Online edition of La Repubblica for the Church of Chiesa di San Francesco Chiesa della Santissima Trinità in Preggio, accessed on May 15, 2018 (Italian)