Sansepolcro

Also known as Borgo Santo Sepolcro, Borgo San Sepolcro

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.

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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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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: Biturgensi - Borghesi
Italian comune.elevation_m: 330
Italian comune.saint: St. John the Evangelist
Italian comune.day: December 27
Italian comune.postal_code: 52037
Italian comune.area_code: 0575
Italian comune.website: www.comune.sansepolcro.ar.it

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Official name: Sansepolcro
Demonym: borghesi
Population: 15125
Area: 91.19
Elevation: 330
Official website: www.comune.sansepolcro.ar.it
Image: Sansepolcro veduta aerea.jpg
Dialing code: 0575
Licence plate code: AR

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Commons category: Sansepolcro
postal code: 52037
name: Borgo San Sepolcro
P11012: Lakócsa
native label: Sansepolcro

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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.