Impruneta
Impruneta is a municipality in the Province of Florence in Tuscany, Italy with 14,782 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012).
Geography
The municipality covers 48 km ². It is located about 17 km south of Florence on the river Greve.
The districts include Bagnolo, quintuplet, Le Rose, Pozzolatico, mezzo Monte, Baruffi and Tavarnuzze.
The neighboring municipalities are Bagno a Ripoli, Florence, Greve in Chianti, San Casciano in Val di Pesa and Scandicci.
Policy
Ida Beneforti Gigli (PD ) was elected in May 2003 Mayor and confirmed in 2008 in office. Your party also with 13 of 20 seats, the majority in the City Council.
Regular events
- Festa A grape: The Festa A grape (German Grape Festival ) takes place since 1926 every year on the last Sunday in September. This attracts spectators from all over Tuscany. The four quarters of Impruneta ( Sante Marie, Le Fornaci, Pallo and S. Antonio ) present on floats, with which they celebrate the grape harvest, the grape and the wine. The cars will be accompanied by numerous choreographies.
Attractions
- Chiesa di San Lorenzo alle Rose, 1120 documented church.
- Chiesa di San Miniato, already mentioned in writing in 1156 in the Church district quintuplet.
- Chiesa di San Pietro in Jerusalem, also known as San Gersolè, already mentioned church in 1156.
- Chiesa dei Santi Stefano e Caterina church in the district Pozzolatico, the work contains Madonna with Child and San Giovanni tra i Santi Cosma e Damiano Alessandro Allori of from the year 1582.
- Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, American military cemetery.
- Santuario di Santa Maria, sanctuary from the XI. Century and modified several times. Has a bell tower from the 13th century. Inside the church are valuable paintings and sculptures from the workshop of Benedetto da Maiano, the Biliverti Giovanni and Giovanni Domenico Ferretti and a predella from the 15th century. , A polyptych and a cloister from the 14th century. The museum contains a collection of historically and artistically interesting materials of different ages.
- Terracotta stoves in Impruneta: A number of craftsmen produce terracotta from the clay of the area - of handcrafted decorative pottery in all sizes, large planters for the garden, oil vessels to small or life-size statues - and offer them in small shops for sale. Likewise, hand- painted plates and mugs are offered.
Sons and daughters of the town
Special
Sound Impruneta: A burned with particularly high temperatures terracotta, whose starting material originates from a specific clay deposits near the village of Impruneta, Impruneta is called. The material contains particularly high levels of minerals, aluminum, copper and iron oxides and is characterized by particularly high frost resistance of (as opposed to Siena terracotta ).
Community partnerships
The community has community partnerships with the following three locations: