Foiano della Chiana

Foiano della Chiana is a municipality with 9377 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany region of Italy.

Geography

The municipality covers 41 km ². It is located about 25 km south of Arezzo and 90 km southeast of Florence in the Chiana Valley.

The districts include Case Nuove, La Pace, Ponte al Ramo, Pozzo della Chiana, Renzino and Santa Luce.

The neighboring municipalities are Castiglion Fiorentino, Cortona, Lucignano, Marciano della Chiana and Sinalunga (SI).

History

First inhabitants of the church today were the Etruscans, zurückdatierbar to the 6th century BC. Occupied in the Roman period of this, the place was first mentioned in 1084, when he was able to explain to the free commune and was its own statutes. In the 12th century the city briefly fell under the control of the Republic of Siena, who shortly afterwards lost control of Arezzo. In 1336 the place of Florentines, which built the city wall and thereby some experiments of Arezzo erwehrten to retake the city fell. 1387 reached Foiano again the status of the community, this time under the leadership of the Republic of Florence. The Battle of Scannagallo ( Battaglia di Scannagallo, also Battaglia di Marciano called ) took place in the district of Pozzo della Chiana on August 2, 1554. Here, the Republic of Florence defeated under Gian Giacomo Medici, the Republic of Siena under Piero Strozzi and thereby moved towards Siena before to take it eventually in 1555. With Florence also Foiano was incorporated into the Duchy of Tuscany. Grand Duke Leopold II commissioned in 1788 Vittorio Fossombroni from Arezzo to complete the construction of drains to make the marshes of the Chiana Valley fruitful. With the exception of the Napoleonic occupation of 1799-1814 the congregation remained until the unification of Italy, in the duchy of Tuscany and of the province of Arezzo was slammed shut. Like almost all places of the province had also Foiano hard hit during World War II under the German occupation and the withdrawal of those. Witness this time, the still existing British military cemetery.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Guido Zurli, * 9 January 1929 in Foiano della Chiana, Film Director
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