Santa Croce sull’Arno | Villa Pacchiani
The Villa Pacchiani Centre for Expressive Activities, the former private home of Geremia Pacchiani, has three floors with a garden…
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Santa Croce sull’Arno | Staffoli
Staffoli is the only hamlet in the municipality of Santa Croce sull’Arno. The small village near Cerbaie was first mentioned…
Santa Croce sull’Arno | Collegiate Church of San Lorenzo
The church was built in the 16th century in Renaissance style on top of the pre-existing church dedicated to the…
Santa Croce sull’Arno | Church of Santa Cristiana
The church was built on the site of a pre-existing 13th-century oratory dedicated to St Jacopo. Its current appearance is…
Pisa | Public baths, former day hotel Cobianchi
In 1925, the entrepreneur Cobianchi built an underground day hotel under the Logge di Banchi. During excavations, a treasure trove…
Santa Maria a Monte | Montecalvoli
The village of Montecalvoli (Santa Maria a Monte) is located on the southern end of the Cerbaie hills, almost overlooking…
Santa Maria a Monte | The “patata Tosca”
The Santa Maria a Monte potato is an early potato of excellent quality. Also called the Tosca, in memory of…
Capannoli | Villa Masi e Villa Orlandini
The current appearance of Villa Masi is the result of a renovation in the second half of the eighteenth century…
Santa Maria a Monte | Collegiate Church of San Giovanni
The façade of the Church of St John the Apostle and Evangelist displays an important portal with two historically interesting…
Capannoli | Church of SS Annunziata
Its current appearance is owed to the restoration work carried out in the early 18th century, based on the design…
Vecchiano | Nodica, Hermitage of Sconda
In the Sconda valley, in the countryside between Nodica and Vecchiano, is the hermitage of San Piero in Sconda, today…
Church of St. John the Baptist
The parish of Saints John the Baptist and Peter the Apostle in Calcinaia, already documented in the year 883, was…