Borgo Santa Rita

Borgo Santa Rita
Borgo Santa Rita
Frazione
	The church of Santa Petronilla
	Borgo Santa Rita Location of Borgo Santa Rita in Italy
	Coordinates: 42°57′27″N11°23′9″E / 42.95750°N 11.38583°E
Country	Italy
Region	Tuscany
Province	Grosseto (GR)
Comune	Cinigiano
Elevation	102 m (335 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	58
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	58044
Dialing code	(+39) 0564

Last updated October 21, 2023

Borgo Santa Rita is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Cinigiano, province of Grosseto. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 34.^[1]

History

The whole territory was property of the counts of Poggio alle Mura (Montalcino) during the Middle Ages, but the modern village is born as a result of the Maremman Riforma agraria (land reform) in the early 1960s.^[2]

Main sights

Santa Petronilla (20th century), main parish church of the village, it was built in 1964 and designed by architect Carlo Boccianti.^[3]
Chapel of Santa Petronilla, early church dating back to the Middle Ages, it's now in ruins.

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References

↑ (in Italian) Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001 Archived 2018-08-26 at the Wayback Machine , Istat.
↑ Fabio Mangiavacchi, La colonizzazione delle campagne maremmane. Dall'appoderamento mezzadrile ai borghi della riforma fondiaria, in "Architetture Grosseto", n. 14, 2011, pp. 66-84.
↑ Marco Del Francia, Giovanni Tombari, Barbara Catalani, Itinerari di architettura contemporanea. Grosseto e Provincia, Pisa, ETS, 2011, p. 61.

Bibliography

Antonio Valentino Simoncelli, Bonifiche nel Grossetano: percorso storico dal 1200 a oggi, Roccastrada, 2008.