Buonconvento
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| Comune di Buonconvento | |||
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| Coordinates: 43°8′N 11°29′E / 43.133°N 11.483°E | |||
| Country | Italy | ||
| Region | Tuscany | ||
| Province | Siena (SI) | ||
| Frazioni | Bibbiano, Percenna, Villa Chiatina | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Marco Mariotti | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 64.8 km2 (25 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 147 m (482 ft) | ||
| Population (2008) | |||
| • Total | 3,153 | ||
| • Density | 48.7/km2 (126/sq mi) | ||
| Demonym | Buonconventini | ||
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | ||
| Postal code | 53022 | ||
| Dialing code | 0577 | ||
| Patron saint | Sts. Peter and Paul | ||
| Saint day | June 29 | ||
| Website | Official website | ||
Buonconvento is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Florence and about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of Siena in the area known as the Crete Senesi.
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[edit] History
Buonconvento (from the Latina bonus conventus", "happy place") is mentioned for the first time in 1100; thirteen years later the German emperor Henry VII died here.
It was surrounded by a line of walls starting from 1371, carried on by the Republic of Siena to which it belonged until 1559, when it became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. It was annexed to Italy in 1861.
[edit] Main sights
The local museum of art houses works by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Pietro Lorenzetti, Andrea di Bartolo, Matteo di Giovanni and other Tuscan painters, taken from local churches. The church of Sts. Peter and Paul has a Madonna Enthroned with Child by Matteo di Giovanni and fresco of the early-15th century Sienese school. Notable is also the fortified pieve of Sant'Innocenza a Piana (13th-14th centuries). Most of the Buonconvento's frazioni house medieval or Renaissance castles.
The church of St. Lawrence, in Bibbiano, has a cyborium by Ventura Salimbeni.
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