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Pieve di Santa Maria a Pava
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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 in the IV-V centuries at the “Vicus Romano”of Pava. The front to which we enter by means of a small stairway, leaned against the ancient parsonage is very simple, in travertine ashlars and bricks; the archivolt portal, without a plastic decoration is enriched with a fragmentary frescoed lunette maybe of the XIV century, representing the” Madonna with Christ Child and two Saints”. The lateral face of the building is in travertine ashlars. Recovered after decades of abandon, it is nowadays a private property.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 in the IV-V centuries at the “Vicus Romano”of Pava. The front to which we enter by means of a small stairway, leaned against the ancient parsonage is very simple, in travertine ashlars and bricks; the archivolt portal, without a plastic decoration is enriched with a fragmentary frescoed lunette maybe of the XIV century, representing the” Madonna with Christ Child and two Saints”. The lateral face of the building is in travertine ashlars. Recovered after decades of abandon, it is nowadays a private property.