Apennine Colossus
The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 meters high, in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. Giambologna created the colossal figure, a personification of the Apennine Mountains, in the late 1580s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork_type: statue
- Description: statue in Tuscany, Italy
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Villa di Pratolino and San Cresci a Macioli.
Villa di Pratolino
Manor estate
The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1822. Its remains are now part of the Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence, reached from the main road to Bologna. Villa di Pratolino is situated 160 metres southeast of Apennine Colossus.
San Cresci a Macioli
Church
San Cresci a Macioli is a church, which is situated 800 metres north of Apennine Colossus.
Santa Maria Ausiliatrice a Montorsoli church
Church
Santa Maria Ausiliatrice a Montorsoli church is situated 2 km southwest of Apennine Colossus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cercina and Caldine.
Cercina
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Cercina is a frazione of the municipality of Sesto Fiorentino, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, central Italy, located on the slopes of Mount Morello. Cercina is situated 3 km west of Apennine Colossus.
Caldine
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Caldine is a village, which is situated 3 km south of Apennine Colossus.
Pian di San Bartolo
Village
Photo: Discanto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pian di San Bartolo is a village, which is situated 3 km southwest of Apennine Colossus.
Apennine Colossus
- Categories: sculpture, stone sculpture, and tourism
- Location: Vaglia, Florence, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
43.85945° or 43° 51′ 34″ northLongitude
11.30456° or 11° 18′ 16″ eastInception
1580Open location code
8FMHV853+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 1930315295OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueWikidata ID
Q22683776
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Uzbek—“Apennine Colossus” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “L’Appennino”
- French: “Colosse de l’Apennin”
- French: “Le Colosse de l’Apennin”
- Greek: “Κολοσσός των Απεννίνων”
- Hungarian: “Appennini Kolosszus”
- Italian: “Colosso dell’Appennino”
- Japanese: “アペニン山の巨像”
- Polish: “Colosso dell’Appennino”
- Polish: “Kolos Apeniński”
- Portuguese: “Colosso do Apenino”
- Portuguese: “Colosso dos Apeninos”
- Spanish: “Coloso de los Apeninos”
- Uzbek: “Apennin kolossu”
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Highlights include Cappella del Buontalenti and Grotta del Mugnone.
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