Sofignano

Frazione in Tuscany, Italy

43°57′22.82″N 11°8′7.8″E / 43.9563389°N 11.135500°E / 43.9563389; 11.135500Country

ItalyRegion

TuscanyProvincePrato (PO)ComuneVaianoDemonymSofignanesiTime zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)Postal code

59021

Sofignano is an Italian village and frazione belonging to the municipality of Vaiano, in the Province of Prato, Tuscany.

Geography

Overview

The village of Sofignano is 2,33 kilometers from Vaiano.

It belongs Vaiano municipality together with Fabio (2,28 km), Faltugnano (2,91 km), La Briglia (1,51 km), La Cartaia (2,57 km), La Tignamica (0,47 km), Le Fornaci (3,10 km), Schignano (2,83 km)^[1]

Sofignano is spread on the mid side of the western face of the Calvana Hill and it consists of various localities:

Localities

Sofignano consists of several courtyards and small villages:

Boana

Nucleus of a few houses including a school and some houses.

Ca' dei Landi

Medieval group of houses and a church now accessible only by foot. There are stems and religious relics now left into ruin.

Casanera

Fortified mansion dated 1200 now being renovated, it is the southernmost building in Sofignano.

Collisassi

Village perched on the mountain with several refurbished villas.

Colombaia

Ancient buildings and farmhouses now surrounded by few modern houses.

Docciola

Between Le Fornaci and the Church the Le Fornaci, it is a group of single houses with stables and a few nearby cottages.

Fattoria delle Mura

Now completely renewed, this big villa and the many houses around it were built ond a medieval tower. the tower, now completely lost, was part of a triangle of towers made by this one, the San Gaudenzio Tower (then included into the villa) and the Torre del Melograno, recently re-discovered and representing the main medieval manufact in Sofignano. .^[2]

L'Olmo

Group of houses mostly farms.

La Lastruccia

Other houses perched on a hill.

Il Baldino

At Collisassi Il Baldino and consists of dwellings.

Sofignano (village)

The proper village that names the area. Here is the parish of Santi Vito e Modesto in Sofignano and the cemetery.

Le Fornaci

It is the most populated area, surrounding an ancient village where bricks were produced into a fornax, naming the place (Fornace = fornax). It started expanding around the old part in the 1980s and it is now considered by many the actual center of Sofignano.