Sansepolcro

Coordinates: 43°34′15″N 12°08′25″E / 43.57083°N 12.14028°E / 43.57083; 12.14028
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Sansepolcro
Città di Sansepolcro
Aerial view of Sansepolcro.
Aerial view of Sansepolcro.
Location of Sansepolcro
Map
St. John the Evangelist
Saint dayDecember 27
Websitewww.comune.sansepolcro.ar.it

Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, is a town and comune founded in the 11th century, located in the Italian Province of Arezzo in the eastern part of the region of Tuscany.

Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, the town is the birthplace of the painters Piero della Francesca, Raffaellino del Colle (a pupil of Raphael), Matteo di Giovanni, Santi di Tito and Angiolo Tricca. It was also the birthplace of the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli, and of Matteo Cioni, who translated Piero della Francesca's treatise about perspective in painting (De prospectiva pingendi) into Latin.

Today, the economy of the town is based on agriculture, industrial manufacturing, food processing and pharmaceuticals. It is the home of Buitoni pasta, founded by Giulia Buitoni in 1827.

History

According to tradition the founding of the town came about through two 9th-century pilgrims to the

abbey nullius.[3]

The first historical mentions of Sansepolcro date to 1012, referring to the construction of the monastery, around which a

Guelfs and Ghibellines, the town's factions were headed by prominent local families, including the Pichi, Bercordati, Graziani and Bacci.[5]

Due to its central location on the local trade routes, in the 13th century control of the town was contested and seized by various forces of the region, passing from

Bishop of Arezzo, and his brother, Pier Saccone Tarlati di Pietramala, who ruled it from Città di Castello, and then to the rule of the Papal States. The local dialect in fact derives from the Citta' di Castello one and the Casentino valley one that arrived later. In 1367 Pope Urban V gave the town and its surrounding contrada to the Malatesta family, whose heirs ruled it until control was assumed by the Republic of Florence in the 15th century with the approval of Pope Eugene IV. It was raised to the rank of a city a century later by Pope Leo X
.

During

Main sights

The main church is the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist built in Gothic-Romanesque style in 1012–49. Other churches of note are San Francesco and San Lorenzo. The latter church has a Deposition by Rosso Fiorentino.

The English writer

Resurrection by Piero della Francesca, which is in the Museo Civico, as "the greatest painting in the world".[7] The museum collection includes three other works by Piero della Francesca and many other treasures including paintings by Santi di Tito, Raffaellino del Colle and Luca Signorelli
.

See also

International relations

Sister cities

Sansepolcro is

twinned
with:

Notes

  1. ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Arezzo: Sansepulcro Guide". Unseen Tuscany. 13 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Visiting Sansepolcro and Anghiari in Tuscany". Villa in Umbria Blog. 23 January 2023.
  5. ^ Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, Piero della Francesca 2002:14.
  6. ^ "The man who saved the Resurrection". BBC News. 24 December 2011.
  7. ^ Huxley, Aldous (1925). Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist. London: Chatto & Windus.