{"id":52177,"date":"2024-01-08T10:51:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T09:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/attrazione\/san-miniato-cigoli-and-sanctuary-madonna-dei-bimbi\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T09:26:15","slug":"san-miniato-cigoli-and-sanctuary-madonna-dei-bimbi","status":"publish","type":"attrazione","link":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/attrazione\/san-miniato-cigoli-and-sanctuary-madonna-dei-bimbi\/","title":{"rendered":"San Miniato | Cigoli and Sanctuary Madonna dei Bimbi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cigoli<\/strong> is an ancient castle long disputed between Pisa and Florence, on a hill overlooking the Valdarno plain. In 1335, the Umiliati monks settled there and built a convent and church on the highest point of the hill. The religious building has survived to the present day following transformations and became a parish church when the baptismal font and the title of Pieve di San Giovanni Battista were transferred there. The three-nave interior preserves the sacred image of the Madonna Enthroned with Child, an early 14th-century polychrome wooden high-relief, and the <strong>monumental stone Gothic tabernacle<\/strong> on the left aisle, the work of the Florentine artist Neri Fioravanti (1381), which contains the <strong>sacred icon<\/strong> venerated for the <strong>miracle<\/strong> of 1451 that gave her the title of <strong>Mother of Children<\/strong> and increased her cult throughout Tuscany for having brought a child back to life. The miraculous event was recognised by the Holy See in 1791 with an official document, still preserved in the Sanctuary&#8217;s historical archive.<\/p>\n\n<p>Every year, an <strong>artistic nativity scene<\/strong> is set up in the church that combines extreme research into detail with high technology, in a &#8216;Palestinian-type&#8217; landscaping, so much so that it is defined as the largest technological nativity scene in Tuscany.<\/p>\n\n<p>The painter, sculptor and architect <strong>Ludovico Ciardi<\/strong>, <strong>known as Il Cigoli<\/strong>, who also practised at the Medici court, was born here in 1559.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cigoli is also a <strong>truffle<\/strong> zone. In March, it turns into a village of taste, where you can taste and buy, wine, oil, local products and the <strong>truffle marzuolo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":49416,"parent":0,"template":"","tipo-attrazione":[],"filter-who":[],"filter-time":[],"class_list":["post-52177","attrazione","type-attrazione","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"it_IT","id":49413,"post_title":"San Miniato | Cigoli, Santuario Madonna di Bimbi","href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/san-miniato-borgo-di-cigoli\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione\/52177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/attrazione"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attrazione"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tipo-attrazione","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tipo-attrazione?post=52177"},{"taxonomy":"filter-who","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-who?post=52177"},{"taxonomy":"filter-time","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terredipisa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filter-time?post=52177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}