Poppi


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FieldValue
namePoppi
official_nameComune di Poppi
image_skylinePoppi Skyline from North.JPG
image_captionPoppi Skyline viewed from the North
image_shieldpoppi-Stemma.png
coordinates
regionTuscany
provinceArezzo (AR)
frazioniAvena, Badia Prataglia, Becarino, Camaldoli, Larniano, Lierna, Memmenano, Moggiona, Ponte a Poppi, Porrena, Quorle, Quota, Riosecco, Sala, San Martino a Monte, San Martino in Tremoleto.
mayorCarlo Toni
area_total_km296.9
population_total6369
population_as_of31 December 2010
population_demonymPoppesi
elevation_m437
saintSan Torello
dayMarch 16
postal_code52014
area_code0575
website
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| name = Poppi | official_name = Comune di Poppi | native_name = | image_skyline = Poppi Skyline from North.JPG | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Poppi Skyline viewed from the North | image_shield = poppi-Stemma.png | shield_alt = | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = | coordinates_footnotes = | region = Tuscany | province = Arezzo (AR) | frazioni = Avena, Badia Prataglia, Becarino, Camaldoli, Larniano, Lierna, Memmenano, Moggiona, Ponte a Poppi, Porrena, Quorle, Quota, Riosecco, Sala, San Martino a Monte, San Martino in Tremoleto. | mayor_party = | mayor = Carlo Toni | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 96.9 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 6369 | population_as_of = 31 December 2010 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Poppesi | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 437 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = San Torello | day = March 16 | postal_code = 52014 | area_code = 0575 | website = | footnotes = 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.

Poppi borders the following municipalities: Bibbiena, Castel Focognano, Castel San Niccolò, Chiusi della Verna, Ortignano Raggiolo, Pratovecchio Stia. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy").

Main sights

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  • Poppi Castle, or the Castello dei Conti Guidi, the main building in the Casentino, known from 1191, was owned by the Counts Guidi. It has additions by Arnolfo di Cambio. It has a courtyard, an external staircase, its chapel with frescos and its library containing rare manuscripts and incunabula.
  • Holy Hermitage of Camaldoli, the ancestral seat of the Camaldolese monastic order.
  • Madonna del Morbo Sanctuary in the centre of the town, containing a painting of the Virgin attributed to Filippino Lippi.
  • 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 Siemoni is a historic ducal villa and arboretum in Badia Prataglia, where there is also the Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta which dates back to the 10th Century.
  • Palazzo Crudeli, birthplace of Tommaso Crudeli 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.
  • Museum Affaire Crudeli and Human Rights.

Sister cities

References

References

  1. All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy). Istat]] {{inlang. it.
  2. "Toscana".
  3. ''Occhi sul Casentino'', Chiusi della Verna e Poppi, Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno e Tourismo di Bibbiena, 1980 {{inlang. it.
  4. ""Carlo Siemoni" Forest Museum and Arboretum {{!}} Visit Tuscany".

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