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COLLE DI VAL

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 686 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COLLE DI VAL D' ELSA, a town and episcopal see of Italy, in the province of Siena, 5 M. by
rail
  S. of Poggibonsi, which is 16 m. N.W. of Siena. Pop. (1901) town 1987; commune 9879. The old (upper) town (732 ft. above sea-level), contains the
cathedral
 , dating from the 13th
century
 , with a pulpit partly of this period; the
facade
  has been modernized. There are also some old palaces of good architecture, and the old
house
  where Arnolfo di Cambio, the first architect of the
cathedral
  at Florence (12321301) was born. The
lower
  town (46o ft.) contains glass-works; the
paper
  and
iron
 
industries
  (the former as old as 1377) are less important.


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