Santa Croce sull'Arno
Santa Croce sull'Arno is a municipality with 14.245 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the Province of Pisa in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Geography
The municipality covers 17 km ². It is located about 45 km west of Florence and 30 km east of Pisa on the Arno. Lone district of Santa Croce is Staffoli that is not tethered to an exclave of the main town. The intervening area belongs to the municipality of Castelfranco di Sotto.
The neighboring municipalities are Castelfranco di Sotto, Fucecchio (FI) and San Miniato.
History
The present village was already inhabited by the Focolesi which coming from the Val d'Elsa, on the run from the Goths and Lombards refuge on the Arno studied how to show fonts in the Biblioteca Riccardiana di Firenze. Name of that settlement was Viniale or Vignale. To the east there was settlement Villa'Elmo. The place name probably comes from a Byzantine crypt, of emigrants from Lucca under the name Volto Santo or Santa Croce (Holy Cross) was built. By the 10th century the place was no more than a cluster of houses, which was controlled by the Counts Cadolingi dei Borgo Nuovo, to Count Kadulo dei Cadolingiche built the four parishes of San Vito, San Tommaso, Sant'Andrea and San Donato. 1240 was in Santa Croce today's patron saint of the village, Santa Cristiana, at that time, who was born under the name Oringa Menabuoi. Despite the declaration of neutrality own the place came in the 13th century in the conflict of Guelphs and Ghibellines and in the territorial disputes of Florence, Genoa, Lucca and Pisa. After the defeat of Ugolino della Gherardesca in the Battle of Meloria 1284 this was indeed appointed Podestà, but had to cede to Florence Santa Croce and the places Fucecchio, Montecalvoli and Santa Maria a Monte. Under the rule of Florence, the place had as the surrounding communities a degree of autonomy from Florence. In this period the city walls with four towers and two gates ( Porta guelfa towards Florence and Porta ghibellina towards Pisa ) was built. The first documents that mention the location under the name of Santa Croce, come from 1284th In them, he is mentioned as an autonomous community under the jurisdiction of Florence. Uguccione della Faggiola conquered Lucca in 1314, while the area around Santa Croce, but the Pisan occupation lasted only two years. Despite the peace treaty of 1317 by Robert of Anjou Castruccio Castracane grabbed 1320-1325 Florence on several occasions and Santa Croce was again occupied by Lucca. To 1330/33 to Santa Croce went voluntarily under the patronage of Florence and with this came the place into the Duchy of Tuscany until he was in 1799 occupied by the Napoleonic troops. After the departure of the French in 1814 ferrovia Leopolda was completed in 1847, a railway line that led up to Empoli and until 1852 brought the rule of the Habsburg- Lorraine with it. After that, the place with the Tuscany joined the Kingdom of Italy. By region or province reform in 1925 under Mussolini exchanged a few places in the province of Pisa to Livorno, in return, the province of Pisa received the places Castelfranco di Sotto, Montopoli in Val d' Arno, Santa Maria a Monte, San Miniato and Santa Croce sull ' Arno. Today, the site is one of the largest centers in the world Gerber.
Attractions
- Chiesa di Santa Cristiana, 1711 resulting church, which was built on an oratory from the 13th century. Contains frescoes by Antonio Domenico Bamberini ( 1666-1741 ).
- Chiesa di San Rocco, built in 1658 church.
- Collegiate di San Lorenzo, 13th century.
- Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo church in the district Staffoli.
- Teatro Verdi, 1902 opened.
- Villa Vettori Bargagli.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Oringa Menabuoi (1237-1310), Blessed
- Giovanni Lami (1697-1770), jurist, scholar and librarian
- Cristiano Banti (1824-1904), painter
- Don Backy ( b. 1939 ), singer
Traffic
- Santa Croce sull'Arno Located on the Strada di grande comunicazione Firenze -Pisa- Livorno.