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Palazzo Sansoni Trombetta
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Via Tanzini, 30 Pontassieve

Palazzo Sansoni Trombetta

The Palazzo Sansoni-Trombetta, now home to the Town Hall of Pontassieve, is a building built in the mid-18th century. Once the center of economic, religious, political and social life under the...
Chiesa di San Miniato a Quintole
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Churches and places of worship
Via Quintole per le Rose, 50023 Baruffi FI, Italia

San Miniato a Quintole Church

The church is located near the fifth milestone of the Cassia Road variant and it is mentioned as a possession of the Impruneta Parish Church in an edict by Pope Adrian IV of November 29 1156. In the...
Chiesa di San Lorenzo alle Rose
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Churches and places of worship
Vicolo Rose, 7, 50023 Impruneta FI, Italia

San Lorenzo alle Rose Church

The first written evidence regarding this building appears in a document dating to February 11 1120 which mentions it under the patronage of the Camaldolese order. Later, it was given to the Impruneta...
Chiesa di San Pietro in San Gersolè
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Churches and places of worship
Via di S. Gersolè, 1, 50023 San Gersolé-torre Rosse FI

San Pietro in San Gersolè Church

The first mention of the church is found in an edict by Pope Adrian IV of November 29 1156 when it was confirmed to the parish priest of Santa Maria in Pineta, then an "ecclesia de S. Irsoleo" is...
Porta Aretina Pontassieve
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Architectures and monuments
Porta Aretina, Via Tanzini Pontassieve

Porta Aretina

Porta Aretina (also known as the Clock Tower) is the only one of the three gates of the historical center that has maintained much of the original structure of the 13th-century fortification. It...
Chiesa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano al Vivaio
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Churches and places of worship
via S. Francesco D'Assisi, 50064 Figline e Incisa Valdarno FI

Church and convent of Saints Cosma and Damiano al Vivaio

It was in 1516, during Pope Leone X's stop in Incisa, that the Franciscans obtained from him the permission to build a new convent and a church where they already ran a hospice, provided that it was...
Torre Frescobaldi - Montelupo Fiorentino (foto Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio)
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Museums
Via Torre, 8, 50056 Montelupo Fiorentino FI, Italia

Permanent exhibition on the Tuscan flask

A permanent exhbition telling the history of the flask: the traditional oval-shaped glass container covered with marsh grass. Born in the 14th century, over the centuries it has become the favourite...
Santa Maria della Misericordia - Lastra a Signa
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Churches and places of worship
Corso Alessandro Manzoni, 50055 Lastra a Signa FI, Italia

Santa Maria della Misericordia church

This church, seat of the local Misericordia confraternity, is located in the old town of Lastra a Signa. The original church was built at the end of the 14th century in the place where now stands the...
Monastero di Santa Maria a Rosano
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Churches and places of worship
Borgo del Monastero 13 Rosano - Rignano sull'Arno

Cloister of Santa Maria a Rosano

The Abbey of Santa Maria is located in Rosano, in the Municipality of Rignano sull'Arno, very close to Pontassieve and a few kilometres away from Bagno a Ripoli. Founded in 780, it has always hosted a...
Antica Spezieria Serristori- Figline Valdarno
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Museums
Piazza XXV Aprile, Figline e Incisa Valdarno FI

Ancient Serristori apothecary

The Antica Spezieria is nowadays located inside the Villa di San Cerbone, the building where Umberto Serristori, in the early 20th century, decided to move the whole Spedale that was previously to be...