Gambassi Terme
Gambassi Terme is a municipality with 4896 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the Province of Florence in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Geography
The municipality covers 82 km ². It is located about 35 km southwest of the provincial and regional capital Florence on the Via Francigena. The municipality is located in the climatic classification of Italian communities in Zone E, 2273 GG and the Elsa Valley.
The most important water bodies in the municipal area are the river Elsa, who spends 6 km in town, and the Torrente Egola (4 of 33 km). Both flow later the Arno to the left side.
The districts include Badia a Cerreto (70 m, 900 inhabitants), Case Nuove (52 m, 500 inhabitants), Catignano (177 m, about 50 inhabitants), Pillo (162 m, about 100 inhabitants) and Varna (187 m, about 100 inhabitants).
The neighboring municipalities are Castel Fiorentino, Certaldo, Montaione and San Gimignano (SI) and Volterra ( PI).
History
Until 1917, the district municipality of Montaione. Thereafter, it was a separate municipality together with Castagno, Catignano and Varna. This separation was preceded by a twenty -year-old dispute over the budget and redistributions.
The town itself dates from the time of the Etruscans, probably settled BC for the first time in the 7th century. The Castello di Gambassi castle was first documented on January 9, 1037 as the property of Guido del fu Ranieri and included today's historic center. Until 1113, the village belonged to the Count Ugo Conte del fu Uguccione de'Cadolingi. In the 12th century Gambassi Volterra was incorporated and at the beginning of the 13th century, the town of San Gimignano has been assigned, but fell already in 1294 to the Republic of Florence. 1322 Gambassi was allowed Florence to raise its own statutes.
Economy
- Since the Middle Ages up to the present days Gambassi Terme is famous for glass production. Was first mentioned glass production in 1276, when eight manufacturing plants in the documents were listed.
- Since the 14th century the thermal springs of the Acqua Salsa di Pillo were used, now converted into a modern thermal spa. The municipality also parts were found by thermal plants, which date back to the time of the Etruscans and Romans, and are now on display at City Hall.
Attractions
- Abbazia di San Pietro a Cerreto, Abbey in the village of Badia a Cerreto. The Hermitage was built 1059-1072 by the Camaldoli. The church contained the work Incoronazione della Vergine by Lorenzo Monaco (1414 emerged for the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence, at the end of the 16th century moved to Cerreto ), which today is in the Uffizi Gallery. In return, the Florence City Council made a painting by Francesco Soderini ( Vergine col Bambino tra i Santi Monaca e Agostino, 1726 originated ) exhibit here.
- Chiesa di Cristo Re ( Chiesa dei Santi Jacopo e also called Stefano ), 1940 resulting church near the older and 1786 destroyed church Chiesa di San Luca (also Chiesa degli Agostiniani ). Contains Biagio di Antonio Tucci the work Madonna tra i Santi Giovanni Battista e Girolamo and by Pier Francesco Fiorentino Vergine col Bambino in the painting trono tra i Santi Giovanni, Francesco, Matteo e Jacopo.
- Chiesa di Santa Cristina, built in 1935 church just outside the village on the Via Volterrana to Montaione / Volterra.
- Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista a Varna, as 1230 mentioned church in the district of Varna.
- Pieve di San Frediano a Montignoso, already on March 3, 1144 in the village of Pieve documented Montignoso.
- Pieve di Santa Maria Assunta a Chianni, a Pieve, which has already been mentioned as a place of Sigerich the seriousness in his notes to the Via Francigena to 994.
- La produzione Vetraria a Gambassi tra XIII e XVII secolo ( The glass production in Gambassi between the 13th and 17th centuries ), permanent exhibition since 1996 with four sections ( Sezioni ). The main part of the exhibition pieces were unearthed at the Via delle Campane and on the Piazza del Castello found 1983 (1995 until 1998). Sezione I: La produzione del vetro in Italia (glass production in Italy )
- Sezione II: La tecnologia del vetro preindustriale ( Pre-industrial techniques of glass production)
- Sezione III: La vita nei quotidiana luoghi di produzione di Gambassi ( Everyday life in the glass manufacturing locations around Gambassi )
- Sezione IV: La produzione del vetro lungo la Via Francigena ( The glass production along the Via Francigena )
Traffic
The village is cut off from the long-distance transport. The nearest interchanges on highways located in Poggibonsi to the Raccordo autostradale 3 (Florence -Siena, about 22 km away) or in Empoli at the Strada di grande comunicazione Firenze -Pisa- Livorno (25 km away). The nearest stops to the railway sector are in Certaldo and Castel Fiorentino, both about 9 km away.
The historic Via Francigena led through the village. The Francigena here is running concurrently with the Via Cassia, which is conducted in older documents as the Via Clodia. In addition, the site is located on Via Volterrana that leads from Castel Fiorentino Volterra.
Community partnerships
Gambassi Terme has a community partnership with:
- La Croix- Valmer, France.
Sons and daughters of the community
- Pietro Chesi (1902-1944), cyclist
- Francesco Livi († 1439 ), a glass painter