Firenzuola
Firenzuola is a municipality of the province of Florence with 4851 inhabitants ( as at 31 December 2012) in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Geography
The municipality covers about 272 km ². It is located about 40 km north of Florence on Futapass the Mugello and the rivers Santerno Savena, Setta, Sillaro, Diaterna ( districts Bordignano and Caburaccia ) and Violla. The Santerno rises in the municipality in the district of Cornacchiaia; the Savena also rises in the municipality at Mount Sasso di Castro, but leaves after a few meters, the municipality and the province to enter the province of Bologna, as well as the Setta that contacts the municipality only for 1 km, however, from the province of Prato occurs.
It is the northernmost municipality in the province of Florence, bordering the province of Bologna in Emilia -Romagna. The place is located in the climatic classification of Italian communities in Zone E, 2919 GG.
The districts include Barco, Bordignano, Borgo Santerno Bruscoli, Caburaccia, Casa Nuova, Castelvecchio, Castro San Martino, Coniale, Cornacchiaia, Covigliaio Giugnola, Le Valli, Montalbano, Moraduccio, Moscheta, Piancaldoli, Pietra Mala, Rifredo, San Jacopo a Castro, San Pellegrino, Segalari, Sigliola, Traversa, Valle Diaterna, Violla and Visignano.
The neighboring municipalities are Barberino di Mugello, Borgo San Lorenzo, Castel del Rio (BO), Castiglione dei Pepoli (BO), Monghidoro (BO), Monterenzio (BO), Palazzuolo sul Senio, San Benedetto Val di Sambro (BO) and Scarperia e San Piero.
History
Firenzuola was founded in the Middle Ages to 1306 by the Republic of Florence. The name comes from Firenzuola the proposal of the historian Giovanni Villani, the piccola Firenze ( Firenzuola), so little Florence (or Florenzchen ) chose as its name. The castle Castrum Florentiole was founded in 1332 (as a document dated April 28, 1373 describes ) to control the boundaries between the Guelf Florence and the influence of the Ghibelline family of Umberto, who had their power in the Mugello. As a church, the place in the time of the Duchy of Tuscany was born, probably in 1780, and retained his bounds in today.
Monuments
- Cimitero Militare Germanico della Futa ( German military cemetery Futapass ) 1962-1967 by Dieter Oesterlen in collaboration with the landscape architect Walter Rossow and Ernst Cramer, as well as the sculptor Helmut Lander planned and built. It is the largest military cemetery, which was built by the German War Graves Commission in Italy. Here are approximately 30,000 graves.
- Also on Futapass are three memorial plaques for the athletes Clemente Biondetti, Gastone Nencini and Giulio Masetti.
Museums
- Museo della Pietra Serena stone art museum.
- , Also called Museo Storico Ethnographic Museum Ethnographic storico di Bruscoli, 1994 opened the Mountain Museum
Churches
- Badia di San Pietro a Moscheta, Abbey in the district Moscheta, created in 1034 by John Gualbertus.
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista, the main church in the town center, which was rebuilt after the destruction of the Pieve di San Giovanni Battista in the Second World War by Carlo Scarpa and Edoardo Detti.