Grosseto and networking Maremma
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Arte digitale nell'arte visiva, c'è la pittura digitale.
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Piazza Dante (also known as Piazza delle Catene, lit. 'Chains' Square') is the main public square in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.
The piazza is located in the city's historic centre, included within the perimeter of the 16th-century city walls. It is home to the city's main representative buildings, including the St. Lawrence Cathedral, the Palazzo Comunale (City Hall) and the Palazzo Aldobrandeschi, seat of the Province of Grosseto. The northern section of the square is called Piazza Duomo, since it is overlooked by the cathedral's façade.
The statue of Leopold II of Tuscany (Italian: monumento a Leopoldo II di Lorena), better known as Canapone, is a white marble monument located at the centre of the square. It was sculpted by artist Luigi Magi [it], and positioned in 1846. It represents Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany dressed as an ancient Roman, in the act of holding up with his left hand a woman, who bears a dead child, and with his right arm a smiling boy; the grand duke's right foot crushes the head of a snake, which is also devoured by a griffin. The allegorical sculpture was meant to celebrate the land reforms and reclamations perpetrated by the grand duke, who is depicted here as a Roman sage and saviour who comes to succour the Maremma (the woman) who has suffered for generations (the dead child); the next generation (the smiling boy) will be grateful to the grand duke who defeated the malaria (the snake), also thanks to the strength and sacrifice of the people of Grosseto (the griffin)
Falco pescatore con pesce predato - Maremma toscana
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Airone cenerino con muggine- Maremma Toscana
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Gabbiano che tenta di prendere la rana predata dall' ibis sacro - Seagull trying to catch the frog preyed upon by sacred ibis - Maremma toscana
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Dal mio cicloviaggio della scorsa primavera ecco uno scorcio di Sovana.
Importante centro etrusco e poi borgo medioevale e rinascimentale, conserva inalterata tutta la sua storica bellezza.
Piazza Dante o Piazza delle Catene a Grosseto - Piazza Dante or Piazza of the Chains in Grosseto
Inserita all'interno delle Mure Medicee di Grosseto e in pieno centro storico cittadino, la piazza ha forma trapezoidale ed è costituita da due aree che si ricongiungono una con l'altra tra la facciata meridionale della Cattedrale di San Lorenzo, la facciata principale di Palazzo Aldobrandeschi e il loggiato dei portici che si articola sul lato meridionale ed occidentale.
Il centro della piazza, leggermente rialzato rispetto ai bordi, aveva nel sottosuolo una cisterna che nel passato serviva da riserva d'acqua per la città e al disopra, la statua del Granduca Leopoldo II di Lorena familiarmente detto Canapone dalla popolazione nel punto sul quale nei secoli passati doveva sorgere un pozzo dal quale si attingeva l'acqua della cisterna.
L'area della cisterna è delimitata da una serie di colonne con catene, da cui il nome di Piazza delle Catene.
Le sue origini sono medievali e documentate sin dal 1222; era certamente più piccola di quella attuale ed eretta fra la piccola pieve di Santa Maria successivamente divenuta cattedrale quando nel 1138 avvenne il trasferimento della Curia Vescovile da Roselle a Grosseto per volontà di Papa Innocenzo II
Inserted within the Medicean city walls of Grosseto and in the historic city center, the square has a trapezoidal shape and consists of two areas that rejoin one another between the southern facade of the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, the main facade of the Palazzo Aldobrandeschi and the loggia of the arcades which is articulated on the southern and western side.
The center of the square, slightly raised with respect to the edges, had a cistern in the subsoil which in the past served as a water reserve for the city and above, the statue of Grand Duke Leopold II of Lorraine familiarly known as Canapone by the population on the point on which in past centuries a well had to be built from which water from the cistern was drawn.
The area of ​​the cistern is delimited by a series of columns with chains, hence the name of Piazza delle Catene (Chains square).
Its origins are medieval and documented since 1222; it was certainly smaller than the current one and built between the small parish church of Santa Maria which later became a cathedral when in 1138 the Episcopal Curia was transferred from Roselle to Grosseto by the will of Pope Innocent II
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