San Gimignano

San Gimignano is a common of the Province of His in Toscane (Italy).

Geography

San Gimignano is one of the most picturesque and suggestive cities of the Toscane.
Elle extends, very embraced in its double wall enclosure and strewn with high towers, in the sea of olive-trees which recover a hill dominating the Valdelsa.
It appears in the Liste of the world heritage in Europe of UNESCO.

History

San Gimignano, of very old origin, received its name of the bishop of Modena which lived during the 4th century.

The city preserves almost intact its architectonic characteristics Des.

Old seat of an Etruscan small village of the hellenistic Period, Saint Gimignano begins its history in the neighborhoods of the 10th century when it takes the name of the saint bishop of Modena, Saint Gimignano , which would have saved the borough of the cruel hordes. San Gimignano experiences a great development during the Middle Ages thanks to the way Francigena which crosses it. Y flower many works of art which decorate the churches and the convents.

In 1199, San Gimignano becomes a common free, with its first Podestat after having broken its control with the bishops of Volterra. It takes then the name of San Gimignano delle beautiful Torri with its 75 house-turns but it suffers from internal conflicts which divide it into two factions: that of Ardinghelli (Guelfes) and that of Salvucci (Gibelins). May 8th, 1300, it lodges Dante Alighieri, ambassador of the league guelfe in Tuscany. The terrible plague of 1348 and the depopulation which follows, throw San Gimignano in a serious crisis and the small town must be subjected to Florence in 1353.

It is subject to the artistic influences then as much florentines, Sienans that pisanes.

Economy

The city is today a center of manufacture of pieces of furniture and especially famous for its wine the Vernaccia de San Gimignano (1 DOCG denomination of decreed Italian controlled origin in March 1966).

Tourism is very active in this floret of Tuscany, girded medieval city of walls (borgo) considered by its turns.

Culture

Personalities born in San Gimignano

  • Giovanni Antonio Dosio, architect and sculptor (San Gimignano 1533 - Rome about 1609)
  • Filippo Buonaccorsi (in Latin Philippus Callimachus Experiens ), humanistic Italian taken refuge in Poland, historian and writer of Latin language, political adviser and diplomat (San Gimignano 1437 - Cracow 1496)

Monuments

The city is closed ramparts and remains of a medieval architecture:

The most interesting monuments of the city are the Dome, the town hall (the palate of the people) and the church Sant' Agostino.

The turns 75, pass to 25 the end of the year 1500 and today, 13 remain intact.

  • On the Piazza della Cisterna , triangular place with its well of the 13th century which gives him its name:

    • the Put Salvestrini 13th century,
    • the Palazzo Tortoli-Treccani , of 1300,
    • the Palazzo dei Cortesi with an imposing tower,
    • the twin towers of Ardinghelli.

  • On the Piazza del Duomo , in the center of the city

    • the old man Palazzo del Podestà (1239), which rests on an arcade called the loggia and its tower of 51 m, Rognosa .
    • the Palazzo del Popolo (palazzo Nuovo del Podestà) built in 1283 within Arnolfo di Cambio and its tower Grossa of 54 Mr. It shelters the museums and the art gallery of the city, with works of Guido da Siena, of the Pinturicchio, FRA Filippo Lippi, Benozzo Gozzoli, Lorenzo di Niccolò, Domenico di Michelino and other artists Sienan and florentins. Inside the palate, Dante Alighieri made a speech the L May 8th 1300 to invite the population to enter the Tuscan league Guelfe and has to send deputies to a congress guelfe. In the " room of Dante" large the Maestà (1317) of Lippo Memmi.
    • twin towers of Salvucci
    • the tower Chigi of 1280
    • the Collegial of the 12th century and frescos of the Paradise and the Hell of Taddeo di Bartolo, the martyrdom of Sebastien saint of Benozzo Gozzoli, scenes of the Old Testament of Bartolo di Fredi. The cycle of the frescos of the New Testament of Barna da Siena taken again by Lippo and Francesco Memmi: the vault of Santa Fina of Giuliano and Benedetto da Maiano (1468), the furnace bridge of the vault is of Benedetto da Maiano and it is surmounted frescos of Domenico Ghirlandaio which reproduce the Fine life holy Santa Fina , the young girl of San Gimignano which lived there in 1200.

  • the church romano-Gothic Sant' Agostino (1298):

    • the vault San Bartolo and its marble furnace bridge of Benedetto da Maiano (1494)
    • chorus and its large retable of the Crowning of the Virgin of Piero del Pollaiolo; frescos of Benozzo Gozzoli on the life of Sant' Agostino.

The city is registered with the Patrimoine of humanity of UNESCO since 1990.

Administration

Hamlets

Pancole, Badia has elmi, Villa LED Goes up, Sant' Andrea, Ulignano, Casaglia, San Donato,

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