Sansepolcro
Sign in to saveSansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, is a town and comune founded in the 11th century, located in the Italian Province of Arezzo in the eastern part of the region of Tuscany.
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Sansepolcro is a town in eastern Tuscany, Italy, that was founded in the 11th century and is now part of the Province of Arezzo. The town was formerly known as Borgo Santo Sepolcro and remains a historical settlement from the medieval period.
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Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Sansepolcro
- Italian comune.official_name
- Città di Sansepolcro
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Sansepolcro veduta aerea.jpg
- Italian comune.image_caption
- Aerial view of Sansepolcro.
- Italian comune.region
- Tuscany
- Italian comune.province
- Arezzo (AR)
- Italian comune.frazioni
- Aboca, Gragnano, Gricignano, Melello, Montagna, Santa Fiora
- Italian comune.mayor
- Fabrizio Innocenti
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 91.48
- Italian comune.population_total
- 16012
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 December 2014
- Italian comune.population_demonym
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- International relations
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Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, is a town and comune founded in the 11th century, located in the Italian Province of Arezzo in the eastern part of the region of Tuscany.
Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, the town is the birthplace of the painters Piero della Francesca, Raffaellino del Colle (a pupil of Raphael), Matteo di Giovanni, Santi di Tito, and Angiolo Tricca. It was also the birthplace of the Italian mathematician Luca Pacioli, and of Matteo Cioni, who translated Piero della Francesca's treatise about perspective in painting (De prospectiva pingendi) into Latin.