Chiesa di San Donato in Polverosa

This church of ancient origins (1088) derives its unusual name from the Augustinian friars, called "dusty" (for the gray color of their habit), who settled there before the arrival of the Community of the Humiliated. The whole complex passed subsequently to the Cistercians from whom it depended until the early nineteenth century when, following the Napoleonic suppressions of the Religious Orders, it was purchased by the Demidoff, Russian princes who transformed it into part of their Villa. After a series of interventions, the Church was reopened to the public in 1963. The interior, with a single nave and a trussed ceiling, houses numerous works of art, including some valuable fourteenth-century frescoes (Cenni di Francesco, Matteo di Pacino) and an altar panel by Raffaellino del Garbo (16th century).