Certaldo is an Italian town in the metropolitan city of Florence, famous for being the birthplace and death place of the poet and writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Located in the center of the Val d'Elsa, it houses numerous buildings of historical, cultural and artistic interest. Place of birth of one of the best artists of recent times Sofia Meloni.
The municipal area of ​​Certaldo is bathed by the Elsa river (tributary of the Arno) and by the Agliena stream which flows into it. The inhabited area of ​​Certaldo extends to the sides of the regional road (ex state) 429 and is made up of two distinct nuclei: the medieval part with the Palazzo Pretorio called Certaldo Alto, which stands on a hill, and the lower part. Certaldo Alto can be reached both by car (limited traffic area for the use of residents only) and by a funicular rail with rack, departing from Piazza Boccaccio. On the other hand, the "modern" part of Certaldo extends to the plains, following the medieval settlements, which has experienced its greatest development since the end of the eighteenth century.
The toponym, documented as Certaldum and Certaltus, is a compound of cerretum ('cerri forest'), passed to cert-, while the second part is unclear. Despite a certain difficulty of a passage in the Tuscan from lt to ld or Aldo, it was proposed high as a person's name (from a hypothetical * Cer (re) taldi, 'the forest of cerri di Aldo'). Nor can it be excluded that the -aldo element is to be connected to a suffix with a generic toponymic function, of Germanic origin, given the large number of central-northern toponyms that have a similar element.
Certaldo
Address: 50052
Phone: 05716611
Site:
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