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Terra del Sole is located about 10 km from Forlì, chief town of the Province in the centre of Romagna, and forms a single Municipality with Castrocaro Terme.

It is one of the few cities that can boast a precise document of birth, as it was ex-novo planned and founded in 1564 by will of Cosimo I de’ Medici of Tuscany. He decided (as written in an ancient announcement) to build a new town, with boundary walls, gates and defence buildings, in a good and appropriate site. The intention was to make the new fortress the administrative, military, judicial and religious centre of all Romagna-Tuscany, of which it was the chief town from 1579 to 1776, when the Province was abolished.

Terra del Sole was conceived not only as a simple fort, but as a proper fortress-city: a town centre, for both civilian and military utilization, inscribed in a bastioned rectangle. It was planned and build by some of the best architects of that time: Baldassarre Lanci as chief architect, his son Marino, Camerini, Genga and Buontalenti as collaborators.

The city is the result of Humanism, which put man in the centre of Universe, and represents a rare attempt of realization of the “ideal city” dreamed by Renaissance men.

A legendary and auspicious flavour comes from the tale of historian Ariani (1587) who make descend the city name from the Sun, that, at the act of foundation, would have broken the clouds and illuminated the area of the new fortress-city (“Terra del Sole” means “Land of the Sun”).

An explanation more tight to Cosimo’s Renaissance culture is that the name he suggested should reflect the concept of the “ideal city”, a microcosm representing the harmony and perfection of the Universe, whose emblematic sign is Sun.

Contatti
Presidente:
Elia Oliva

e-mail: sbandieratoriemusici@libero.it
olivaelia.fc@gmail.com

telefono:
389-6651359

sede:
Via G. Baccarini, 6
47011 Castrocaro Terme e Terra del Sole (FC)

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