Vivo d'Orcia
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| Panorama of Vivo d'Orcia, below left the Palazzo Cervini (Eremo del Vivo) | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| region | Tuscany | ||
| province | Siena (SI) | ||
| local community | Castiglione d'Orcia | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 56 ' N , 11 ° 38' E | ||
| height | 870 m slm | ||
| Residents | 532 (2017) | ||
| Telephone code | 0577 | CAP | 53023 |
Vivo d'Orcia is a district ( fraction , Italian frazione ) of Castiglione d'Orcia in the province of Siena , Tuscany region in Italy .
geography
The district is located approx. 8 km south of the main town Castiglione d'Orcia, approx. 48 km southeast of the provincial capital Siena , approx. 98 km southeast of the regional capital Florence and approx. 160 km northwest of the Italian capital Rome in the Orciatal on the northern foothills of the mountain Monte Amiata at 870 meters above sea level and in 2001 had about 600 inhabitants. In 2017 there were 532 inhabitants. It is the largest town in the municipality of Castiglione d'Orcia. The closest place is Campiglia d'Orcia (district of Castiglione d'Orcia), approx. 5 km northeast. In the south, Vivo d'Orcia borders Abbadia San Salvatore (approx. 7 km). The river Vivo rises in the local area and flows over the duck into the eponymous river Orcia .
history
The place developed around the Hermitage Eremo di San Benedetto , which was founded in 1015 by the Camaldolese . The area was donated by Arrigo I to the founder of the Camaldolese, Romuald , in 1003. The Hermitage is now below the inhabited Borgo . In 1338 the Eremo was destroyed by the Salimbeni family from Senese. In 1460 the place was mentioned in documents from Pope Pius II ( Commentari, Lib. IX ). In the first half of the 16th century the place came as a gift from Pope Paul III. to the Cervini family from Montepulciano , who transformed the Hermitage into a palazzo. They also built mills, iron and copper processing workshops and oil press facilities, which led to an upswing in the population. The lands of the Cervini were located under the name Casette (also Caselle ) in the municipality of Abbadia San Salvatore and near the Eremo del Vivo in today's capital. They were merged in 1867 under the current place name. Since July 7, 1867, Vivo d'Orcia has been a part of Castiglione d'Orcia. From 1895 the aqueduct Acquedotto del Vivo (also Acquedotto di Siena ) was built.
Attractions
- Oratorio di San Benedetto (also called Ermicciolo ), oratory in Romanesque style in the woods around Vivo d'Orcia, was probably the first seat of the Eremo del Vivo .
- Palazzo Cervini ( Eremo Camaldolese di Contea , also called Eremo di San Benedetto , part of the Eremo del Vivo ). It was founded as the Camaldolese Hermitage in 1015 and destroyed in 1338 by the Salimbeni family from Senese . Around 1517 (or 1534) the Palazzo Cervini was designed from the Hermitage, probably by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger .
- Pieve di San Marcello , Pieve consecrated in 1726 , dedicated to Pope Marcellus II (Marcello Cervini). Contains a panel painting ( Madonna del Rosario ) from 1793. First belonged to the diocese of Chiusi and Pienza , then from 1772 to the diocese of Montalcino (today the archbishopric of Siena-Colle di Val d'Elsa-Montalcino ).
- Sorgenti dell'Ermicciolo , starting point of the Acquedotto del Vivo (Acquedotto di Siena) at Torrente Vivo.
literature
- Ippolito Corridori, Arturo Santioli: L'Amiata. Edizioni Cantagalli, Siena 1987
- Emanuele Repetti: VIVO SUL MONTE AMIATA in Val d'Orcia. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846) , online edition of the University of Siena (PDF, Italian)
- Bruno Santi: I Luoghi della Fede. L'Amiata e la Val d'Orcia. Arnoldo Mondadori Editore , Milan 1999, ISBN 88-04-46780-0
- Touring Club Italiano : Toscana , Milan 2003, ISBN 88-365-2767-1 , p. 688.
Web links
- Website of the Pro Loco in Vivo d'Orcia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b TCI
- ↑ Official website of ISTAT ( Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ) on 2001 population figures in the province of Siena, accessed on December 14, 2012 (Italian)
- ↑ italia in dettaglio on Vivo d'Orcia , accessed on January 12, 2018 (Italian)
- ↑ a b c Repetti
- ↑ Santi mentions the year 1517, other sources speak of 1534 (Repetti and Corridori / Santioli), the year of the papal coronation of Paul III. (October 13th)
- ↑ a b Santi
- ↑ a b Corridori / Santioli
- ^ Website of the Pro Loco Vivo on the history of the place , accessed on April 8, 2013 (Italian)
- ↑ Website Valdorciasenese.com to Oratorio di San Benedetto / Ermicciolo with fig. , Accessed on April 8, 2013 (Italian)
- ↑ Website Valdorciasenese.com on Palazzo Cervini / Eremo Camaldolese di Contea, with illus. , Accessed on April 7, 2013 (Italian)
- ↑ Website Valdorciasenese.com to Pieve di San Marcello, with illus. , Accessed on April 8, 2013 (Italian)
- ^ Website of the Pro Loco Vivo on the Sorgenti, with. Fig. , Accessed April 8, 2013 (Italian)