Sansepolcro

Sansepolcro ( Borgo San Sepolcro also historically, Borgo del Santo Sepolcro, or Borgo Santo Sepolcro ), is a town with 16,019 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany region of Italy.

  • 3.1 churches
  • 3.2 Other points of interest

Geography

The municipality covers about 91 km ². It lies about 25 kilometers northeast of Arezzo and 80 km southeast of Florence on the Tiber.

The districts include Aboca, Basilica, Cignano, Giardino, Gragnano, Gricignano, Melello, Montagna, Santa Fiora and Trebbio.

The neighboring municipalities are Anghiari, Badia, Borgo Pace ( PU), Citerna (PG), Città di Castello (PG), Pieve Santo Stefano and San Giustino (PG).

History

Local foundation to use by Florence

The town grew in the 10th century, according to legend by the pilgrims Arcano and Egidio on the way back from the Holy Land, who founded a monastery there. The monastery, dedicated to the Holy grave and the four Evangelists, was first mentioned in 1012 and is located on the outskirts Noceati. The first sources speak of Benedictines, then since 1137 belonged to the monastery of the Camaldolese at the latest. In the 14th century, the present-day town center was built near the monastery. The municipal administration was documented in 1163 by Frederick the First, after the Podestà (1203 ) and the Capitano del popolo be ( approximately mayor, mayor ) ( 1251 ) mentioned in the sources. In the year 1301 the city fell under the control of Uguccione della Faggiola, twenty years later to Guido Tarlati. From 1335 to 1351 Sansepolcro was under the rule of Perugia, then to 1358 under the rule of the Visconti of Milan. In the following decade the town surrendered to Città di Castello and was again subjected in 1370 by the Malatesta of Rimini, which was the heyday of the place. In the Battle of Anghiari on June 29, 1440 2,000 inhabitants fought in the army of Niccolo with the Republic of Venice against the coalition of Florence and the Papal States. After the defeat of Niccolo Sansepolcro was sold for 25,000 ducats of Pope Eugenius IV to Florence.

Medici rule until World War II

1520 the monastery and its territory by Pope Leo X. were elevated to diocese, the abbey church to the cathedral. The then conferred city rights are still valid today. After that, the place played an important role in the planning of the Medici, who provided Sansepolcro with a new town wall. The latest amendments were made ​​in the 16th century by Giuliano da Sangallo. In the further course called the place Biturgia, documented by Claudius Ptolemy in his Geografia, due to which the present Demonym Biturgensi relates. Cosimo I de ' Medici increased then to prepare the limits of his republic on the approaching war with the Republic of Siena. In order to save the cost of another city wall extension, he left in 1555 to tear down the smaller parts of the city outside the walls. 1638 the Jesuit school was opened in 1727, the Accademia dei Risorti. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the village went through an economic crisis, which affected also demographically. In October 1750, the city was awarded the title città nobile by the Duchy of Tuscany. Severe damage left by the earthquakes of 1781 and 1789, a result of which many of the medieval towers had to be reduced. Economic boom came by canal construction work on the rivers in the early twenties of the 19th century, by founding the company Buitoni 1828 cultural growth through the formation of the philharmonic dei Filarmonica Perseveranti (1828), the Accademia della Valle Tiberina Toscana ( 1830) and Painting School Scuola di Disegno (1837 ). 1886, the city was connected to the railway network Arezzo Sansepolcro - Città di Castello, Gubbio Fossato di Vico. During World War II the city was on the Gothic Line and was involved in heavy combat action, which resulted in the city Torre di Berta was destroyed.

Attractions

Churches

  • Chiesa di San Lorenzo, with works by Rosso Fiorentino, built in 1556.
  • Chiesa di San Rocco, with a replica of the Holy Sepulchre, built in 1554th
  • Duomo di Sansepolcro, ( Dom), also Cattedrale di San Giovanni Evangelista, built in 1012.

Additional points of interest

  • Museo Civico di Sansepolcro ( Municipal Museum ), with works by Piero della Francesca and Andrea Pozzo.
  • Museo della the Resistance ( Resistance Museum ), founded in 1975, exhibits the resistance against National Socialism.
  • Aboca Museum
  • Teatro Dante ( Dante Theatre )

Sports

  • Sansepolcro was stage finish at the Giro d' Italia in 1992.
  • The local football club Associazione Sportiva Calcio Dilettantistica Sansepolcro currently plays in Serie D.

Sons and daughters of the town

Community partnerships

  • Switzerland Neuchatel, Switzerland, since 1997
  • France Neuves- Maisons, France, since 1997
  • Croatia Sinj, Croatia
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