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1800. Among these are a Renaissance triptych depicting the Madonna
with Child and Saints by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini. Also in this
church you will find a recently restored 18th-century organ.
Also see the Oratorio del SS. Crocifisso, from the 15th-century
but rebuilt during the first half of the 18th-century, when
the stone confessional was constructed. A wooden crucifix from
the year 1420 is contained Inside the confessional. In recent
years, the Festa Grossa has been revived. This is a manifestation
of sacred art that originated in the first decades of the 18th-century.
Tosina - The Camaldolensian Romanesque parish church
of Santa Margherita a Tosina** (686m) was built around
the year 1000, and was immediately fought over by the Camaldolensian
monks and the authorities of Pomino.
It was restructured during the 13th-century, and underwent other
modifications in the 17th-century. Romanesque in design with
a large single nave, it preserves an important bell tower that
extends upward from the apse, with an elegant polychrome stained
glass, double mullioned windows, and Della Robbia terracottas.
Visit the adjacent cloister and the well which dates from the
18th-century. Inside (for an appointment, phone 055/8318996),
there is a triptych**, behind the high altar, by Mariotto
di Nardo, which was recently finished being restored. The project
took twenty years to complete and ended in 1989. Exceduted for
the Oratorio di Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence in 1389,
according to what is written in the dedication indicated on
the ingravement on the steps, and was taken to Tosina in the
early years of the 17th-century. The triptych represents a Madonna
enthroned with Child, four musician angels and a cherubim; at
the sides are Sant'Antonio Abate, San Nicola, San Lorenzo and
San Francesco. Inside the church are also preserved a Madonna
of the School of the 17th-century. In the vicinity, lovely surrounding
area of Paterno, Raggioli, Fontiserni, Nipozzano, Poggio Commissario,
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Here You can download the commune map. [mappa1.zip] |
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The Commune extends in a mountainous
zone between the Apennines and Pratomagno (1592m) in a mountainous
zone. An ancient Etruscan settlement (in particular Altomena), a property
of the Count Guidi in 1089; it passed to the Cattani of Diacceto,
inhabitants of the Castle in the 13th-century, whose ownership was
confirmed in 1445 after controversies had arisen regarding the inhabited
area. Located on the road that connects Arezzo with Fiesole, Pelago
always held considerable importance because of its main roads, among
them the "Cassian Way", where significant outlines of the road still
remain. Having passed to Florence in the modern era, it was an active
part of the League of Diacceto and subsequently became the chief Napoleonic
town in 1808. In 1915 it lost the outlying districts of Contea and
Rufina, and became what it is today with its present territorial dimensions.
Recently, it has experienced a significant tourist boost, due in particular
to the attraction of Consuma. Numerous agricultural and artisan activities,
ceramics; activities in the sectors of furniture and the growing of
vines and olives trees.
It was birthplace of Jacopo da Diacceto, Giovanni del Ghirlandaio
and Lorenzo Ghiberti (sculptor of the bronze doors of the Florence
Baptistery). An ancient and well preserved town, its historical
center can be admired with its open galleries, seats of the old
market, Piazza Ghiberti, the overloking palaces and houses. Remarkable
restoration has been undertaken of the Ripi and Gerini palaces, the
medieval Tower, Palazzo Cattani, formerly the town hall, and the noble
18th-century-style Marchionni palace, Piazza Cavalcanti, the heart
of the Count Guidi's castle, the restructuring of the wall with external
communication trench and, a short distance away, the chapel to the
War Dead. Next to Palazzo Cattani, the church of San Clemente
(1782, restored in 1970 ) preserves a late 17th-century altar and
a stone baptistery from the 18th-century. The church holds a collection
of sacred art with paintings and wooden altar pieces, monstrances,
furnishings, manuscripts and chalices dating from the 14th-century
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