Cecina | VisitLarciano https://visitlarciano.com/en/ Benvenuti a Larciano Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:11:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://visitlarciano.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg Cecina | VisitLarciano https://visitlarciano.com/en/ 32 32 Cecina – The Medieval Square https://visitlarciano.com/en/cecina-en/cecina-the-medieval-square/ https://visitlarciano.com/en/cecina-en/cecina-the-medieval-square/#respond Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:11:20 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/cecina-the-medieval-square/

A magnificent little square, of medieval origin, in which we discover on the one hand one of two gateways to the village, through 600 meters of the perimeter wall, and on the other hand the back and more ancient part of the Church of St. Nicholas. We draw your attention on the semicircular apse of Roman origin: about two metres off the ground, you can find two stones engraved with the Greek crosses and these can still be seen as evidence of a period of Byzantine-Longobard domination.

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The Church of St. Nicholas https://visitlarciano.com/en/visit/the-church-of-st-nicholas/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:25:33 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/the-church-of-st-nicholas/

The church is of Romanic origin, although only the apse, resting on a rock, dates from this period; the bell tower and part of the church were instead subject to subsequent alterations in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The church has a triangular tympanum facade, flanked on the left side by the stone bell tower.
Inside it has a single nave and only the left branch of the transept. On the left wall there is a beautiful wooden crucifix carved in the fourteenth century by an unknown author.
On the right wall, at the level of the altar, we find a fresco of the sixteenth century, again by an unknown painter. At the centre
of the artwork there is the Virgin on a throne of stone; at her sides Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, Francis and Sebastian. Behind the group, the curtains of a pavilion, above which there are two cherubs in flight.
In the middle of the nave, on the right hand side, there is a sixteenth-century fresco attributed to the Florentine painter Donnino di Domenico. At the centre of the fresco there is the Archangel Raphael holding the hand of Tobiolo in front of St. Lorenzo. On the splay there are Seraphims with six wings, St. Sigismund and St. Roch; on the ceiling the sun and the moon mourning the death of Christ. The fresco tells the story of Tobiolo, the young son of Tobias, and his Guardian Angel (Tobias, 12).
In 2015, three restored canvases were relocated: Our Lady of the Rosary and Saints; Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Thomas Aquinas.

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Cecina – The View https://visitlarciano.com/en/cecina-en/cecina-the-view/ https://visitlarciano.com/en/cecina-en/cecina-the-view/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:47:28 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/cecina-the-view/
With our back to the church of St. Nicholas in the background, the nearest hill is Montevettolini, part of the municipality of Monsummano Terme, in which the white of the Medici villa stands. On the next hill stands the tower of Monsummano Alto, and in the distance the province of Lucca and the Pisan mountains. This was the medieval Pistoia: a defence system linked to the Valdinievole, consisting of numerous fortifications located on as many hills. The plain below us was in fact a marshy area, then reclaimed by the Medici and the Lorraine, which for centuries has fostered the development of a belt of Castles and Churches on the top of hills, which characterise the attractive Montalbano.
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