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ABBEY OF MONTE OLIVETO MAGGIORE Founded in at the beginning of the XIV century from the blessed Bernardo Tolomei, in the place where he retired in hermitage previously, the imposing Benedictine-mass is situated in the sout... more »
The Arcipretura of Santa Maria Assunta is a sacred building situated in Rapolano Terme. It was consecrated in 1946 but, of the primitive construction, it has been kept only the rich architectural prospect with coupled columns... more »
The basilica of Saint Agata, already collegiate church, dedicated to the well-known martyr from Catania, is the main church of Asciano since 1029, when it prevailed for important over the ancient Parish of Saint Ippolito. The... more »
The chapel of the Saints Fabiano and Sebastiano is a sacred building situated in the resort “ Camparboli” near Asciano. It is the most imposing road-tabernacle of the whole territory of Asciano and it still shows... more »
The chapel of the Square is a sacred building situated in Serre di Rapolano (Rapolano Terme). The chapel is a small structure with a rectangular plant opened on three sides through wide arches. This was the seat of the Saint ... more »
The chapel of Saint Antonio is a sacred building situated in the resort “Segalari”, in Buonconvento. Annexed to a group of houses, the chapel of Saint Antonio, far from the centre, shows, after the recent restorat... more »
The chapel Pierli Nerli is in Quinciano, in the Commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. It was erected by order of the Count Ferdinando Pierli Nerli, who assigned the project to Giulio Rossi; when he died, it was finished in 18... more »
The church of the Corpus Christi( more properly, church of the Corpus Christi’s Confraternity, also known as Church of the Confraternity) is a sacred building in Rapolano Terme. The front is plain with a simple portal i... more »
The church of the Saint Catherine of the Mercy’s Confraternity is a sacred building situated in the resort of Serre di Rapolano in Rapolano Terme. It has a simple sloping front with a portal with triangular tympanum and... more »
The church of the Saint Cross’s Confraternity is a sacred building in the resort of Poggio Santa Cecilia in Rapolano Terme. The small and nice church, today in a bad state and closed to the worship, has the front toward... more »
The church of the Mercy is a sacred building situated in Rapolano terme. The front of the church is plain, in bricks, with portal and window in travertine. The inside has three rich altars in stucco with columns in false marb... more »
The church of Saint Fabiano is situated in the homonymous village in the commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. Collocated inside the homonymous castle, the church is already mentioned in 867; at the beginnings of the XIV centur... more »
The church of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament is situated in Montisi. Already existent in the XVI century, it had some works of restoration in 1616. The inside, with one nave, has the altar in stucco, decorated wit... more »
The church of the Madonna of the Garden in Camparboli(more properly Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary) is a sacred building situated in Camparboli, in Asciano. The building has an ancient origin and it was a plebeian ... more »
The Church of the Madonna of the Snow(or Church of the Virgin of the “Torricella”)is in Montisi. It was built on a landed property of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala by request of the Community and it was ... more »
The church of the Madonna della Piaggia is a sacred building among San Gimignanello and Serre di Rapolano. It was founded in 1407 by the “grancere” of Serre and, at the time of the rector of the Hospital of Santa ... more »
The church of the Madonna of Montauto is a sacred building in Santo Stefano, near Rapolano Terme. It was built in 1676 by Ottaviano Martini around a small tabernacle frescoed with the Madonna with the Christ Child, which is c... more »
The Monastery of Saint Cristoforo in Rofeno is a sacred building in Badia a Rofeno. It is mentioned since 1031. While the church keeps the Cistercian architectonic typologies, the annexed cloister shows the last, visible eigh... more »
The Oratory of the Arch confraternity of the Misericordia(already Oratory of Saint sebastiano’s Society) is a sacred building in Buonconvento. Most part of its furnishings are to be found in the Museum but there are sti... more »
The Oratory of Santa Croce is a sacred building in the Basilica square, beside the Romanesque church of Saint Agata. It has an homogeneous seventeenth-century furnishings and a decorative array all centred on the theme of th... more »
The oratory of Barottoli is a sacred building in an anonymous place in Monteroni d’Arbia. It was built to keep an image with the Madonna with Christ Child of the XIV century, which was very venerated by the local people... more »
The parish of the saints Andrew and Laurence is a sacred building in Serre di Rapolano(Rapolano Terme). The parish is mentioned since 1252 but the present external aspect in neo-Romanesque style dates back to the beginning of... more »
The ex-parish of the saints Giusto and Donato is in Monteroni d’Arbia. The ancient church, which today has been replaced with a building of the 70’s of the XX century, shows its ancient origin in the Romanesque sl... more »
The Parish of the Virgin Mary’s Assumption(in times past “Parish of the Assumpted”) is situated in Montisi. It was built on the inside with works which have changed its original character. It still keeps pre... more »
The parish of saint John the Baptist is the main church of saint Giovanni d’Asso. It dates back to the XIV century when the family Petroni provided it with precious relics and works of art. In 1639 the Pannilinis who fo... more »
The parish of Saint John the Baptist in Corsano (Monteroni d’Arbia). The church is mentioned since 1031. The front, organized in two orders with small arches and semi-columns in the highest part and with wide blinded &n... more »
The parish of Saint John the Baptist in Lucignano d’Arbia is a sacred building in Lucignano d’Arbia. Mentioned since the beginnings of the X century after the restoration of 1933, it has taken again the Romanesque... more »
The parish is a sacred building in Rapolano Terme. Mentioned since 1029, it has the structure of a basilica with three naves which finish with only an apse and are covered with the wooden in sight structure. The simple prospe... more »
The Parish of Saint Andreino is a sacred building at the quarries of Rapolano. The church is a Romanesque travertine structure with a semi-circular apse and a portal with the archivolt and the frame, which is engraved with ge... more »
The parish of Saint Innocenza in Piana is a sacred building near Buonconvento. Mentioned since 1081, it is a fortified structure which still keeps the characteristic elements of the military sienese architecture of the XIII-X... more »
The parish of Saint Ippolito was situated in the past outside the village, with an original basilica plant, the church belongs today to a private owner and reduced to an only nave. The main altar is decorated with a fresco wi... more »
Saint Maria in Pava was one of the nineteen parishes which were contended in the Middle Ages between the dioceses of Siena and Arezzo. Probably it was transferred here the title of parish by the church of Saint Peter, risen i... more »
The castle of saint Bartolomeo(or Castle of the Saint)is a sacred building in Rapolano Terme. Of Romanesque origin, without a front and situated between two buildings, was in old times linked to a hospital for pilgrims and si... more »
The Church of San Bartolomeo is a sacred building in Castelnuovo Tancredi in Buonconvento. It probably dates back to the XIII century and had a first restoration in 1336 and another one in 1655. On the altar there was a small... more »
The church of San Bernardino is a sacred building in the Matteotti street. In the past it was dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and belonged to the Commando of the Knights of Malta, which took it after the abolition of the ... more »
Already mentioned in the registers of the tithes of 1278-1279 and 1295-1304 as a branch of the Parish of Pava, because of the numerous restorations( the last one in 1971) it keeps very little of the original structure. In fac... more »
The church of san Francesco was risen with the wide conventual complex, in the XIII century on the ruins of the medieval castle. To testify it there are the rests, on the walls of the nave and the central chapel, of frescoes ... more »
The church of San Giovanni Battista is a sacred building in Modanella (Rapolano Terme). Already a Piccolomini patronage, Pio II transferred here the ancient cure of saint Lucia in Castelvecchio. The classical front and the be... more »
The church of San Giovanni Evangelista is a sacred building in Armaiolo, in Rapolano Terme. The church is mentioned since the XIV century but the present structure in neo-Romanesque travertine shapes dates back to the end of ... more »
The church of san Lorenzo is a sacred building in Bibbiano, near Buonconvento of ancient origin, at the end of the XVIII century. The structure was in a precarious state of preservation, so that it was decided to built a new ... more »
The church of San Lorenzo in Monterongrifoli is a wide bricked-structure with a simple sloping roof. On the inside, where there is only one nave, has lost the aspect of medieval church to gain a late eighteenth-century shape.... more »
The church of San Lorenzo is a sacred building in Percenna, near Buonconvento. The church is the most ancient place of the Christian devotion in Buonconvento, which has risen, according to the tradition, in the same place whe... more »
The church of San Lorenzo is a sacred building in Serravalle, near Buonconvento. It is very damaged(a recent partial fall of the covering has made it unfit for use), the structure keeps the signs of the luminous eighteenth-ce... more »
The church of san Lorenzo in Vergelle was originally a branch of the near Parish of Pava and religious centre of a medieval castle and village which don’t exist anymore, reduced to few houses, already the seat of a bapt... more »
The church of San Pietro is a sacred building in Poggio Santa Cecilia, in Rapolano Terme. As attests a tombstone at the entrance, it was transferred here in 1798 the parish of the ancient church of Santa Maria in Ferrata, nea... more »
The church of San Pietro Apostolo is in Radi, in the commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. It was first mentioned in the XIII-XIV century. Today it is made up of a small building with a nave and a semi-circular apse, with brick... more »
The church of San Pietro in Villore is in the village of Sa Giovanni d’Asso. The building has only one nave with semi-circular apse and covering with cross vaults, held up by a transversal arch on semi pilasters. Fruit ... more »
Nel VII secolo, sotto il dominio longobardo fu deciso di procedere alla bonifica delle colline argillose ad Est di Siena, abbandonate con la decadenza dell’Impero Romano. Queste terre erano comprese tra due delle princi... more »
The Church of Sant’Agostino is a sacred building on street Matteotti.it was risen in the XIII century with the annexed cloister of the Agostinian friars; then, it became a private property after the Napoleonic suppressi... more »
The church of Sant’Albano is in Quinciano, in the Commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. Today it is completely bleak but it kept, until some years ago, two important evidences of its history: the lunette by Sano di Pietro... more »
The church of Sant’Angelo is in Ponzano, in the Commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. The rests of the original church, today deconsecrated, are into the rural complex called Ponzano, already existent at the end of the XI... more »
The church of Santa Lucia in Montisi is very simple, with a sloping roof and two small windows at the sides of the bricked portal. It is documented in the late XVII century as a possession of the Confraternity of Corpus Domi... more »
The Church of Santa Maria delle grazie (or of the Madonna del Tribbio) is beside the cimitery of San Giovanni d’Asso. It was built at the expense of the community around 1600 but it has been almost completely rebuilt af... more »
The church of the Saints Flora and Lucilla is in Montisi. It rose as a parish under the patronage of the community. The inside, which presents a rich plastic decoration in stucco with two altars along the nave and two on the... more »
The church of the Saints an Fabiano and Sebastiano is a sacred building in San Gimignanello, in Rapolano Terme. The present building dates back to the rebuilding wanted by the Sansedonis in 1771. The ancient church, mentioned... more »
The church of the Saints Giacomo and Cristoforo is a sacred building in Cuna. It is situated at the entrance of the fortified grancia of Cuna, which belongs to the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala. The dedication to Saint ... more »
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a sacred building that is Buonconvento. The building was built in the fourteenth century and completely renovated in 1705. Dell'arredo original remain in the church today few works: a t... more »
The church of Santo Stefano is in Sovignano, in the commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. Mentioned since the end of the XIII century, it originally belonged to the parish of Murlo and it was dedicated to Santa Lucia. The passa... more »
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