The Church | VisitLarciano https://visitlarciano.com/en/ Benvenuti a Larciano Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:25:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://visitlarciano.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-favicon-32x32.jpg The Church | VisitLarciano https://visitlarciano.com/en/ 32 32 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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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 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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Castelmartini https://visitlarciano.com/en/territory/castelmartini/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:15:04 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/castelmartini/

The name is derived from an ancient fortress of the XII century. In 1297 Martinus Jacobi Admannati built a “domus” and a “castrum”. Not far from here was an ancient port which linked with the canals the marshes to the Arno river, connecting in this way the Pistoia townhall to the sea. In the same area there was the ancient “hospitium” of San Donnino, of which we remember the title of the present parish church of Castelmartini.

Inside, at a single nave, a painting of the first half of the eighteenth century representing St. Joseph with Saints Anthony Abbot and Donnino is preserved on the main altar.

Remembrance Park of Castelmartini

Remembrance Park of Castelmartini

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The Church of St. Donnino

The Church of St. Donnino

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The Church of St. Donnino https://visitlarciano.com/en/visit/the-church-of-st-donnino/ https://visitlarciano.com/en/visit/the-church-of-st-donnino/#respond Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:07:37 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/the-church-of-st-donnino/

The church of St. Donnino, in the hamlet of Castelmartini, today shows a triangular gable facade and a bell tower along the left transept. Inside, at a single nave, a painting of the first half of the eighteenth century representing St. Joseph with Saints Anthony Abbot and Donnino is preserved on the main altar. Behind it there is a wooden chorus, dated back to 1877. In the right branch of the transept, a carved marble altar in the typical Baroque style: with a beautiful form of the angels in the air while supporting an oval within which a small painting of the Madonna del Carmine was placed, which was unfortunately stolen in 1972.

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Remembrance Park of Castelmartini

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The Church of St. Donnino

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The Church of St. Roch https://visitlarciano.com/en/visit/the-church-of-st-roch/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 09:02:13 +0000 https://visitlarciano.com/uncategorized/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 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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