San Giovanni delle Contee

Frazione in Tuscany, Italy

42°45′13″N 11°45′50″E / 42.75361°N 11.76389°E / 42.75361; 11.76389Country

ItalyRegion

TuscanyProvinceGrosseto (GR)ComuneSoranoElevation

470 m (1,540 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total192DemonymSangiovannesiTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

58010

Dialing code(+39) 0564

San Giovanni delle Contee is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Sorano, province of Grosseto, in the tuff area of southern Maremma. At the time of the 2001 census its population amounted to 224.^[1]

San Giovanni delle Contee is about 90 km from Grosseto and 12 km from Sorano, and it is situated along the Provincial Road which links Sorano to Castell'Azzara.

History

It was included — alongside Castell'Ottieri, Montorio and the castle of Sopano — in the small County of Ottieri in the Middle Ages. The county was abolished in 1616.^[2]

Main sights

Santa Caterina delle Ruote (17th century), main church of the village, it was built as a pieve (pieve di San Giovanni) in the Middle Ages and entirely re-built in the 17th century.
Casa Reale, one of the oldest buildings in the village, it was the seat of the Ottieris in San Giovanni delle Contee.

References

^ (in Italian) Popolazione residente - Grosseto (dettaglio loc. abitate) - Census 2001, Istat
^ (in Italian) Emanuele Repetti, «San Giovanni delle Contee», Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana, 1833-1846.

Bibliography

(in Italian) Emanuele Repetti, «San Giovanni delle Contee», Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana, 1833–1846.
Aldo Mazzolai, Guida della Maremma. Percorsi tra arte e natura, Florence, Le Lettere, 1997.