Città di Castello
Città di Castello | |
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Comune di Città di Castello | |
9 July respectively | |
Website | Official website |
Città di Castello (Italian pronunciation:
History
The town was founded by the ancient
Nearby Pliny the Younger built his villa in Tuscis, which is identified with walls, mosaic floors and marble fragments surviving at a place now called Colle Plinio, the "Hill of Pliny".[5]
In 550 A.D. Tifernum was largely destroyed during the Ostrogothic campaign by Fantalogus at the orders of Totila. The town was subsequently rebuilt by its bishop Floridus around a castle and renamed first Castrum Felicitatis by Lombards and later Civitas Castelli. By the Donation of Pepin of the Frankish king Pepin the Short in 752, it went to the Holy See.
It became an independent
In 1474
On 11 September 1860, Città di Castello was occupied by Piedmontese troops. On 17 March 1861, it became part of the Kingdom of Italy.
Towards the end of the twentieth century, the city has seen a considerable expansion northwards toward San Giustino, with industrial parks tracking the river, railroad and main highway. In the area, several kinds of mechanical goods, textiles, ceramics and furnishings are produced. Agriculture is at a very advanced level. Today it's the main economic centre in the region.
Geography
Overview
The town is located in northern Umbria, near the borders with Tuscany and Marche, and the Tiber river flows along its western side. The municipality borders with Apecchio (PU), Arezzo (AR), Citerna, Cortona (AR), Mercatello sul Metauro (PU), Monte Santa Maria Tiberina, Monterchi (AR), Montone, Pietralunga, San Giustino, Sansepolcro (AR), Sant'Angelo in Vado (PU) and Umbertide.[7]
Frazioni
Antirata, Astucci,
Culture
The dialect is particular and derives in turn from the Romagnolo Gaelic and the eastern Tuscan dialects. The comune territory is one of the largest in Italy, for this reason, dialect changes a lot according to the considered zone. Culture is linked to Marche, Romagna and Tuscany ones.
The art historian Vittorio Sgarbi has referred to the town as the place of the origin of the Renaissance or its capital.[8][9]
Main sights
The city is mostly built of brick, since the local sandstone deriving from the Apennines erodes very rapidly. Its principal monuments include the medieval Palazzo Comunale, the tall civic tower or Torre Comunale, and the Pinacoteca Comunale, an art museum with mostly Renaissance works by Raphael, Luca Signorelli, Andrea della Robbia, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Domenico Ghirlandaio, and others, notable for its external decorations by Giorgio Vasari.
The much-reworked cathedral, from the 18th century with an unfinished 17th-century façade, has an altar front (Paliotto) of chased silver dating to the 12th century, and a crosier from the 15th. It also houses works by
Other religious structures of interest include:
The city has memorialized the abstract painter and sculptor Alberto Burri, who was born in Città di Castello, with the "Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri" housing a large permanent museum of his works in the former Palazzo Albizzini.
The Palazzo Terranova in Ronti and the nearby Castello di Santa Eurasia near Monte Tezio in the countryside of Città di Castello are owned by Alexander Lebedev.[10]
Notable people
For persons from the city, see People from Città di Castello. In addition, the following are believed to have had a local connection, usually through long residence there:
- Pliny the Younger
- Pope Celestine II
- Monica Bellucci, film actress; was born here
- Vitellozzo Vitelli
- Alberto Burri
- Salvatore Sciarrino
- Margaret of Castello
- Frankie Hi-NRG MC
Twin towns
Majano, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, is the only official twin comune.[11]
References
Notes
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Canepari, Luciano. "Dizionario di pronuncia italiana online" (in Italian). Retrieved 1 May 2015.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 399.
- ^ The name distinguished it from Tifernum Mataurense and Tifernum on the Sannio. (Guida d'Italia)
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Book III, chap. 19, paragraphs 112-113. Also at wikisource latina
- ^ "Città di Castello". umbriatourism.it. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ 42407 Città di Castello on OpenStreetMap
- ^ "Sgarbi: "Chi non viene a visitare i musei tifernati è una capra"".
- ^ "Perugia, c'è Sgarbi per l'immenso bene umbro". 10 May 2017.
- ^ Wells, Emma (28 September 2014). "Welcome to my den: Inside Evgeny Lebedev's Italian castle". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 4 October 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ^ "Cerimonie in onore del Sergente Angelo Zampini" (PDF). Retrieved 14 November 2017.
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Diocese of Città di Castello". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Newadvent.org
- Touring Club Italiano, 1966. Guida d'Italia: Umbria. pp. 136–42
- Official homepage (in Italian) (in English)
- Bill Thayer's site
- YouTube.com
External links
- (in Italian) Città di Castello official website
- (in Italian) Città di Castello on luoghimisteriosi.it Archived 2022-08-14 at the Wayback Machine