Signa
Signa is a municipality in the province of Florence with 18,266 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the Italian region of Tuscany.
Geography
Signa is about 15 km west of Florence, at the mouth of the river Bisenzio into the Arno. The river Ombrone Pistoiese forms the western boundary of the municipality of Carmignano.
Districts ( frazioni ) are San Mauro a Signa, Lecore, Sant'Angelo a Lecore and San Piero a Ponti.
The neighboring municipalities are Campi Bisenzio, Carmignano, Lastra a Signa, Poggio a Caiano and Scandicci.
Culture and sights
Museums
- Museo della Paglia e dell'Intreccio " D. Michelacci " - a museum explaining straw processing, a Signa in the past famous craft. A product were known Florentine straw hats.
Churches
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista - parish church of Signa
- Chiesa di San Pietro - Church in the district Lecore
- Chiesa di Sant'Angelo - Church in the district Lecore
- Chiesa di San Mauro - The Church in the district of San Mauro is documented since the 13th century. A ciborium is from the workshop of Benedetto Buglioni. A terracotta statue (Madonna col Bambino tra San Jacopo minore e San Giovanni Evangelista ) Luca d' Andrea della Robbia is attributed.
- Chiesa di San Miniato (13th century)
- Chiesa di Santa Maria in Castello - rebuilt first mentioned around the year 879 the church, the 19th century
- Pieve di San Lorenzo - Pieve from Carolingian period (866 ), with frescoes of the 14th century
Primary school
Church of San Giovanni Battista
View of the Castello
Twinning
- Maromme (France)
- Oberdrauburg ( Austria )
- Longobucco
- Tifariti
Sons and daughters of the town
- Giovanna da Signa ( Beata Giovanna ), patron saint of the parish
- Boncompagno da Signa (ca. 1170-1250 ), Italian grammarian, historian and man of letters
- Silvano Bertini ( born 1940 ), boxer