Marsiliana

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Marsiliana
Marsiliana d'Albegna
Frazione
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Marsiliana
Location of Marsiliana in Italy
Coordinates: 42°32′12″N11°20′32″E / 42.53667°N 11.34222°E / 42.53667; 11.34222
CountryItaly
Region Flag of Tuscany.svg Tuscany
Province Grosseto (GR)
Comune Manciano
Elevation
32 m (105 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
413
Demonym Marsilianesi
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
58050

Marsiliana, known also as Marsiliana d'Albegna, is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Manciano, province of Grosseto. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 246. [1]

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Geography

Marsiliana is about 40 km from Grosseto and 18 km from Manciano. It is situated in southern Maremma, along the Maremmana Regional Road halfway between Manciano and the Tyrrhenian Sea at Albinia. The old centre of Marsiliana is situated on the top of a hill overlooking the river Albegna.

History

The territory of Marsiliana is known for the presence of Etruscan archaeological sites: the most important one is the area of Banditella, where a necropolis of more than one hundred tombs (8th-6th century BC) was discovered in 1908. [2] [3] [4]

After World War II, in connection with the land reform launched in Maremma in 1951, the area at the foot of the castle was selected for the construction of a modern service village through the expropriation of the large Corsini estate. The village was designed by architect Antonio Provenzano between 1954 and 1958 and described as "the most elaborate and balanced of all the villages built in Maremma during the 1950s". [5] The design features a slender church elevated on a podium-square, an adjacent social building, a rear building for commercial use with a slightly curvilinear plan, and the extensive and unifying use of porticoes. [5]

Buildings

Education

Public education in Marsiliana is provided by the "Pietro Aldi" Institute of Manciano. The village hosts a nursery school and a primary school on Via delle Scuole, as well as a middle school on Via Borgo. [8]

References

  1. ↑ (in Italian) Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Censimento 2001 Archived 2018-08-26 at the Wayback Machine , Istat.
  2. ↑ MARSILIANA D’ALBEGNA THE SETTLEMENT AND THE NECROPOLIS
  3. ↑ (in Italian) Marsiliana Archived 2014-10-17 at the Wayback Machine , Parco degli Etruschi.
  4. ↑ Andrea Camilli, Alice del Re, Carmine Sanchirico, Elena Santoro, Andrea Zifferero, Nuove ricerche a Marsiliana d'Albegna: l'esplorazione archeologica della Tenuta Corsini, in "Notiziario Toscana 2", Florence, 2006, pp. 350–361.
  5. 1 2 3 Quattrocchi, Luca (2005). "Gli anni della ricostruzione architettonica in Maremma". In Enrico Crispolti; Anna Mazzanti; Luca Quattrocchi (eds.). Arte in Maremma nella prima metà del Novecento. Milan: Silvana Editoriale. p. 300.
  6. ↑ (in Italian) Parish of Marsiliana Archived 2014-01-07 at the Wayback Machine , Diocese of Sovana-Pitigliano-Orbetello, official site.
  7. 1 2 Giuseppe Guerrini, Torri e castelli della provincia di Grosseto, Siena, Nuova Immagine Editrice, 1999.
  8. ↑ "Open day nel borgo di Marsiliana: scuole aperte per fare lezione". Il Giunco. 20 December 2024.

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