Larciano | VisitLarciano https://visitlarciano.com/en/ Benvenuti a Larciano Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:22:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://visitlarciano.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg Larciano | VisitLarciano https://visitlarciano.com/en/ 32 32 The Church of St. Sylvester https://visitlarciano.com/en/visit/the-church-of-st-sylvester/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:22:02 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/the-church-of-st-sylvester/
The Church of St. Sylvester

The San Silvestro’s (St. Sylvester’s) Church has a Roman origin and traditionally it is said that in the same place, up to the beginning of the 4th Century AD, there was an old heathen temple transformed into a church during the pontificate of Pope Silvestro I (313 – 335 AD).
During the High Middle Ages it was under the jurisdiction of the more important Pieve of San Lorenzo a Vaiano and during the 15th Century it became a Parish (Parrocchia) and then a village church (a Pieve), joining in 1622 the newborn diocese of San Miniato.
Today it shows a single nave structure with a Latin Cross transept and a rectangular apse. The current plan is the result of a number of modifications during the centuries; among the most important we can mention the construction of the bell tower in 1784 and the demolition of two arcades in 1875 in order to increase the capacity of the church.
On the counter-façade there is the organ, perhaps the oldest in Valdinievole (16th – 17th century), with a front in carved, painted and gilded wood. At the entrance, two 17th century holy water stoups, the right one set on a 15th century column; inside a niche, a beautiful marble baptismal font (1532).

A curious and interesting painting depicts The Miracles of Saint Anthony between Saint Francis and Saint Michael the Archangel (1663). At the center of the choir, a 19th century painting with Saint Sylvester baptizing Constantine by Bartolomeo Valiani.

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The Church of St. Roch

The Church of St. Roch

The San Rocco’s (St. Roch’s) Church, in neo-Renaissance style, has reached its current aspect as a Latin cross after many interventions. At the back of the building, next to the apse, stands the bell tower with a square base, whose cell opens to the outside with a...

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porta sud Larciano Castello
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This gate, facing south, is the latest of the three access points to the village. It was built after the extension of the wall path dating back to the first half of the 13th Century, following the purchase of the Castle of Larciano and its territories by the Commune of Pistoia. Larciano was to become the main bulwark of the defence system of Pistoia, in stronger and stronger friction with Lucca and Florence. Built using the Braccio Pistoiese (Yard of Pistoia) as modular basis, it is 3.67 m (10 ft) high by 2.14 m (6 ft) wide, and was made of big square blocks of stone in parallel and horizontal rows, recently restored. The limited information does not allow accurate dating, however, it is thought to be between the end of 14th and the end of 18th Century.

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The Church of St. Roch

The Church of St. Roch

The San Rocco’s (St. Roch’s) Church, in neo-Renaissance style, has reached its current aspect as a Latin cross after many interventions. At the back of the building, next to the apse, stands the bell tower with a square base, whose cell opens to the outside with a...

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The North-East Gate
The North-East Gate, recently restored, is one of the three access points to the village of Larciano Castello and has the same constructive and modular characteristics of the North Gate. Built using, as modular basis, the “Liutprand foot”, an ancient unit of measure of Longobard origin, it dates at the first phase of fortification of the ancient villa, at the end of the 11th Century AD by Counts Guidi di Modigliana, who, as early as the 10th Century, established a wide feud along the Montalbano and on the surrounding hills.
The significant change in the road access to the Castle has meant that the door is now outside the new road.

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The San Rocco’s (St. Roch’s) Church, in neo-Renaissance style, has reached its current aspect as a Latin cross after many interventions. At the back of the building, next to the apse, stands the bell tower with a square base, whose cell opens to the outside with a mullioned window on each side. The church was commissioned by the population in 1631 when the town was freed from the pestilence. In 1884 the new building was completed. The bell tower and the terrace, adorned with merlons, were started in 1911 and completed in 1929.

In the left side sandstone altar of 1641, the wild boar is represented, the symbol of the ancient community of Larciano and in the niche there is the statue of the Saint. In the niche at the right-hand side altar is a terracotta high relief of Our Lady of the Graces. On the central dome there is the fresco of St. Mary of the Assumption. Above the entrance door in the lunette a mosaic depicting the Annunciation is laid, by Gino Terreni, realised on the occasion of the centenary of the constitution of the Parish. At the same time the altar was replaced with the present one of sandstone with a central high relief depicting the Emmaus supper. The original baptismal font, the ambo, the tabernacle and the four bronze panels at the entrance door are also by the same author. Two frescoes by P. Graziani, depicting Christ Blessing and the Last Supper (1994-2004), are in the apse and the little chapel. By the same author are the panels of the Way of the Cross. In 2005 V. Spinelli donated a valuable organ built by G. Ghilardi according to the rules of the classical organ making and ideally inspired by a phonic conception attributable to the German Baroque. The fully mechanical transmission organ has 40 registers on three manuals and pedal and is located on the cantoria in front.

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