Poppi
Encyclopedia
Poppi is a comune
(municipality) in the Province of Arezzo
in the Italian
region Tuscany
, located about 40 km east of Florence
and about 30 km northwest of Arezzo
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Poppi borders the following municipalities: Bagno di Romagna
, Bibbiena
, Castel Focognano
, Castel San Niccolò
, Chiusi della Verna
, Ortignano Raggiolo
, Pratovecchio
.
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...
(municipality) in the Province of Arezzo
Province of Arezzo
The Province of Arezzo or Arretium is the easternmost province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Arezzo.It has an area of 3,232 km², and a total population of 323,288 in 39 comuni . At June 30, 2005, the main comuni by population are:- External links :...
in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
region Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
, located about 40 km east of Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
and about 30 km northwest of Arezzo
Arezzo
Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....
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Poppi borders the following municipalities: Bagno di Romagna
Bagno di Romagna
Bagno di Romagna is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 90 km southeast of Bologna and about 45 km south of Forlì....
, Bibbiena
Bibbiena
Bibbiena is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany , the largest town in the valley of Casentino. It is located 60 kilometers from Florence, 30 kilometers from Arezzo, 60 kilometers from Siena and 20 kilometers from the Sanctuary of La Verna.The town is on top of a hill at an...
, Castel Focognano
Castel Focognano
Castel Focognano is an Italian comune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany. Although it is named after a village on the slopes of the Alpe di Catenaia, it is administered from the industrial town of Rassina.-History:...
, Castel San Niccolò
Castel San Niccolò
Castel San Niccolò is a comune in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 40 km east of Florence and about 35 km northwest of Arezzo....
, Chiusi della Verna
Chiusi della Verna
Chiusi della Verna is a comune in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 60 km east of Florence and about 25 km north of Arezzo...
, Ortignano Raggiolo
Ortignano Raggiolo
Ortignano Raggiolo is a comune in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 40 km southeast of Florence and about 25 km northwest of Arezzo....
, Pratovecchio
Pratovecchio
-History:Dono di Paolo, father of the Florentine artist Paolo Uccello, was a barber-surgeon from Pratovecchio. Dono moved to Florence and became a citizen there in 1373.-Main sights:...
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Main sights
- Poppi CastlePoppi CastlePoppi Castle is a medieval castle in Poppi, Tuscany, Italy, formerly the property of the noble family of the Conti Guidi.-History:The first written mention of the castle at Poppi is in 1169, when it belonged to the Abbey of San Fidele de Strumi, but documentation from the 1190s shows that by this...
, or the Castello dei Conti Guidi, the main building in the CasentinoCasentinoThe Casentino is the valley in which the first tract of the river Arno flows to Subbiano, Italy.It is one of the four valleys in which the Province of Arezzo is divided. Mount Falterona, from which the Arno starts, represents the northern boundary between the Casentino and Romagna...
, known from 1191, was owned by the Counts Guidi. It has additions by Arnoldo do Cambio. It has a courtyard, an external staircase, its chapel with frescoFrescoFresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
s and its library containing rare manuscripts and incunabula.
- Hermitage of CamaldoliHermitage of CamaldoliThe Camaldolese Hermitage of Monte Giove is a monastery near Naples, Campania, Italy.One of the monasteries still active in the region, it sits on the hill in back of Naples at the highest point in the city, between Vesuvius and the Phlegrean Fields. It was built in 1585 by the Camaldolese...
, the ancestral seat of the CamaldoleseCamaldoleseThe Camaldolese monks and nuns are part of the Benedictine family of monastic communities which follow the way of life outlined in the Rule of St. Benedict, written in the 6th century...
monastic order. - Church of Madonna del Morbo in the centre of the town, containing a painting of the Virgin attributed to Filippino LippiFilippino LippiFilippino Lippi was an Italian painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy.-Biography:...
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- The annual festival commences in the upper town on 29 June, when a large procession bears the image of the Virgin from the Church of Madonna del Morbo to the Church of Saints Marco and Lorenzo, where it remains for the duration of the week.
- The Museo e Arboreto Carlo SiemoniMuseo e Arboreto Carlo SiemoniThe Museo e Arboreto Carlo Siemoni is a museum and historic arboretum located in Badia Prataglia, Poppi, Province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.The arboretum was established in 1846 by Karl Simon for Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the museum now occupies the duke's former villa...
is a historic ducal villa and arboretumArboretumAn arboretum in a narrow sense is a collection of trees only. Related collections include a fruticetum , and a viticetum, a collection of vines. More commonly, today, an arboretum is a botanical garden containing living collections of woody plants intended at least partly for scientific study...
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- Palazzo Crudeli , birthplace of Tommaso CrudeliTommaso CrudeliTommaso Baldasarre Crudeli was a Florentine free thinker who was imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition. Because of his membership of a Masonic lodge, he is often celebrated as a martyr for Freemasonry even though he died four years after his imprisonment.-Chronology:* 1702-12-21 Born at Poppi *...
condemned by the Catholic church as heretic. He belonged to the first Freemason Lodge of Italy established by the English colony in Florence, 1732. He died in the same Palazzo after torture and imprisonment.