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Cathedral of Saints Donato and Peter, Arezzo

In 1277, Bishop Guglielmo Ubertini promulgated a decree which stated the church's desire to build a cathedral "to honour God, the Blessed Virgin and the patron saint Donato". ...

Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie, San Giovanni Valdarno

The Basilica di Santa Maria dell Grazie rises on the western side of piazza Masaccio. The monumental complex dates to the late fifteenth century, although it has undergone several modifications and enlargements throughout the decades, after the great fire of 1596 and the bombings of the Second ...

The church of Sant’Antimo in Piombino

Built in 1377, on the site of a church dedicated to St. Michael, the Piombino Cathedral was built in the Sienese Gothic style and was dedicated to St. Augustine. As indicated on its facade, the architect was Piero del Grillo from Pisa. ...

The Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence

A typical example of Italian Gothic, the architecture of Florence Cathedral, also known as Santa Maria del Fiore, hails from the initial project by Arnolfo di Cambio (1245-1302), who worked on the previous building, considerably expanding the structures. ...

Basilica of Santissima Annunziata, Florence

The basilica of Santissima Annunziata is the main shrine to the Virgin Mary in Florence. Due to the wealth of its decoration seems to allude to the Roman Baroque as opposed to Tuscan religious traditions. ...

Church of Saint Martin in Batignano

The parish church of St. Martin was built during the twelfth century using salvaged materials from the Roman and high medieval periods, coming from buildings in the nearby city of Roselle. Over the centuries, the building has undergone several different renovations. ...

Sanctuary of Maria del Patrocinio, Castelnuovo Berardenga

The history of Castelnuovo Berardenga is closely connected with the worship of Madonna del Patrocinio. As early as in 1367 the Virgin Mary was thanked for the fortifications that the Sienese had built to defend the village from sacking in the fighting between Florence and Siena. ...

St. Francis Cathedral, Livorno

The facade of Livorno’s cathedral, entirely rebuilt, features a portico with semicircular arches. Some sources attribute it to Inigo Jones, the father of English Renaissance architecture. ...

Basilica of Saint Mary, Impruneta

The origins of the Basilica of Saint Mary in Impruneta are shrouded in legend. It was founded after the discovery of a miraculous Madonna icon. The story says that, once the idea to construct a temple honoring Mary came about, walls that had been erected by day were dismantled overnight. ...

Fontebuono monastery church, Camaldoli

The monastery of Camaldoli is situated near Poppi, three kilometres from the Camaldoli Hermitage. The place was also known by the name of Fontebuona for the quality of its waters of its fountain that Ambrogio Traversari had built at the site's entrance. ...

Collegiata dei Santi Michele e Giuliano, Castiglion Fiorentino

The Collegiata dei Santi Michele e Giuliano (often just referred to as Collegiata di San Giuliano”) is a large neoclassical, Latin cross shaped structure with a portico, completed in 1860, in the town of Castiglion Fiorentino in Tuscany. ...

Montecasale Hermitage, Sansepolcro

Legend has it that the hermitage of Montecasale dates to 1192, when Camaldolese monks set up a small convent with hospital and pilgrims’ hall here, in the Tuscan mountains near the neighbouring Le Marche. ...

Duomo di Fiesole

Fiesole Cathedral

This building dates back to the year 1028 when Bishop Jacopo il Bavaro decided to move the cathedral from its original position near the abbey, within the city walls. He dedicated it to Saint Romolo, an evangelist from Fiesole, and this saint feature heavily in the works of art in the cathedral. ...

Duomo di Prato

Prato, Duomo

‘The marble facade of the Duomo appears before me, striped in green and white, the pulpit of Michelozzo and Donatello hanging from a corner like a bird's nest, and the beautiful bell tower which Giotto took as a model, but which is more simple, slender and straightforward’ This was Curzio ...

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The San Zeno Cathedral, Pistoia

The first written record of San Zeno cathedral is in a legal document dated September 923. It is known, however, that there has been a church here since at least the fifth century. ...

Santuario dell’Addolorata, Cerreto di Sorano

The sanctuary of the Madonna del Cerreto is a religious complex located in the municipality of Sorano. It was built beginning in 1854 to replace the dilapidated church of Santa Maria dell’Aquila and to remember, at the exact same point where it was erected, the appearance of the Virgin Mary to ...

Santuario della Madonna di Valdibrana, Pistoia

The sanctuary of the Madonna di Valdibrana is a 17th-century place of worship near Pistoia, erected where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to a shepherdess. The apparition occurred to reveal to the girl where an icon was buried among stones and twigs. ...

Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Pitigliano

The earliest mention of a church named for Saints Peter and Paul in Pitigliano dates to 1061. In 1276 three churches are noted: San Giovanni, Santa Maria and San Pietro. The latter subsequently became a “collegiate” church and was named after the saints Peter and Paul. ...