San Romolo a Settimo church

From the church of San Romolo a Settimo, that rises up on the highest elevation of the Lastra a Signa area, you can enjoy a sweeping view from the Apennines to Florence, down to the Sienese hills. It appears that around the year 1000 there was a hermitage of monks of the Badia a Settimo in the village of San Romolo, but the first documents that provide evidence of a religious building's existence in this place date back to 1200.

A recent restoration has brought to light, under the 16th century portico, the ancient Romanesque period stonework. In the 18th century, instead, the quadrangular apse was added, as the date (1710) etched on the step at the entrance implies: originally the church indeed had a simple rectangular plan, ending with a semi-round apse, a common feature in medieval rural parish churches.

Inside, one of the altars used to house the painting portraying the Madonna of Humility by Lorenzo Monaco, now kept in the Museo di San Martino a Gangalandi.