Fucecchio () is a town and ''
comune
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'' of the
Metropolitan City of Florence
The Metropolitan City of Florence ( it, Città Metropolitana di Firenze) is an administrative division called metropolitan city in the Tuscany region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Florence. It replaced the Province of Florence. It was first ...
in the
Italian region of
Tuscany
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. The main economical resources of the city are the leather industries, shoes industry and other manufacturing activities, although in the recent years their number has been decreasing because of a slight recession started.
The medieval town of Fucecchio is mentioned frequently in the opera ''
Gianni Schicchi
() is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's ''Divine Comedy''. The work is the third and final part of Pucc ...
'' (1917) by
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long l ...
– one character, Simone, was once its
podestà
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, and some of the estates to be distributed are situated there.
Main sights
*''Collegiata di San Giovanni Battista'' (11th century, but redone in Neo-Classicist style in the 18th century).
*Abbey of ''San Salvatore'', founded in 1001. It houses a painting by Jacopo Chimenti, derived from a similar one by
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...
.
*Oratory of ''Madonna della Ferruzza''.
*''Palazzo Corsini''.
People
People born in Fucecchio include:
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Marco Bracci, volleyball player
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Luca Cecconi, football manager and former striker
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Enrico da Fucecchio, Bishop of
Luni
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Manuela Falorni, best known as "la Venere bianca", pornographic actress
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Alessandro Lambruschini
Alessandro Lambruschini (born 7 January 1965) is an Italian former long-distance runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase
Biography
Lambruschini participated at three editions of the Summer Olympics (1988, 1992, 1996), he has 40 ca ...
, long-distance runner
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Giuseppe Montanelli, writer and politician
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Indro Montanelli, writer and journalist
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Andrea Tafi, cyclist
External links
Official websiteMap of FucecchioContrada MassarellaNew Life Christian church in Fucecchio
Cities and towns in Tuscany
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