Religious Sites in Tuscany

Religious Sites in Tuscany

Sights Overview
Name Category Location
 
Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
Tuscany's most-visited abbey sits in an oasis of olive and cypress...
Religious Sites Abbazia di Monte Oliveto Maggiore
 
Abbazia di San Galgano
Time has had its way with this Gothic cathedral without a rooftop...
Religious Sites Abbazia di San Galgano
 
Abbazia di Sant'Antimo
It's well worth your while to go out of your way to visit this...
Religious Sites Abbazia di Sant'Antimo
 
Badia a Coltibuono
North of Gaiole a turnoff leads to this Romanesque abbey that...
Religious Sites Gaiole in Chianti
 
Badia a Passignano
One of the finest and best-preserved works of art in Italy is...
Religious Sites Passignano
 
Basilica di San Francesco
The famous Piero della Francesca frescoes depicting The Legend...
Religious Sites Arezzo
 
Battistero
This lovely Gothic baptistery, which stands across from the Duomo's...
Religious Sites Pisa
 
Battistero
The Duomo's 14th-century Gothic Baptistery was built to prop...
Religious Sites Siena
 
Carmignano
Pontormo's Visitation is in this small village a short drive...
Religious Sites, Towns Prato
 
Chiesa di San Donato a Lamole
The tiny village of Lamole contains this Romanesque church that...
Religious Sites Greve in Chianti
 
Chiesa di Santa Caterina
Visit this 15th-century church to view the excellent stained-glass...
Religious Sites Colle di Val d'Elsa
 
Collegiata
The town's main church is not officially a duomo (cathedral)...
Religious Sites San Gimignano
 
Collegiata
The 13th-century Collegiata church has three majestic portals...
Religious Sites San Quirico d'Orcia
 
Convento di San Francesco
In 1211 Saint Francis founded the Convento di San Francesco...
Religious Sites San Miniato
 
Convento e Chiesa di Santi Jacopo e Lucia
The Convento e Chiesa di Santi Jacopo e Lucia is also known as...
Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites San Miniato
 
Cripta
After it had lain unseen for possibly 700 years, a crypt was...
Religious Sites Siena
 
Duomo
The only thing remarkable about San Miniato's Duomo, set in a...
Religious Sites San Miniato
 
Duomo
Pisa's cathedral brilliantly utilizes the horizontal marble-stripe...
Religious Sites Pisa
 
Duomo
Prato's Romanesque Duomo, reconstructed from 1211, is famous...
Religious Sites Prato
 
Duomo
The Romanesque Duomo, the Cattedrale di San Zeno, dates from...
Religious Sites Pistoia
 
Duomo
The blind arches on the cathedral's facade are a fine example...
Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites Lucca
 
Duomo
Dedicated to Saint Christopher, the Duomo is a Romanesque cathedral...
Religious Sites Barga
 
Duomo
Dedicated to Saint Peter, the Duomo was begun in the 11th century...
Religious Sites Castelnuovo di Garfagnana
 
Duomo
Work began on the Duomo in the 11th century and continued into...
Religious Sites Carrara
 
Duomo
Siena's cathedral is beyond question one of the finest Gothic...
Religious Sites Siena
 
Duomo
Several reconstructions have left little to admire of the once-Romanesque...
Religious Sites Colle di Val d'Elsa
 
Duomo
Behind the textbook 13th-century Pisan-Romanesque facade is proof...
Religious Sites Volterra
 
Duomo
Arezzo's medieval cathedral at the top of the hill contains an...
Religious Sites Arezzo
 
Duomo
Cortona's cathedral stands on an edge of the city, next to what's...
Religious Sites Cortona
 
Duomo
On the Piazza Grande the unfinished facade of Montepulciano's...
Religious Sites Montepulciano
 
Duomo
This 15th-century cathedral was built by the architect Rossellino...
Religious Sites Pienza
 
Duomo
This 18th-century baroque cathedral has a single nave with chapels...
Religious Sites Pitigliano
 
Duomo
The central Piazza Garibaldi, dating from the 13th to the early...
Religious Sites Massa Marittima
 
Fondazione Marino Marini
Lest you think that Tuscany produced only Renaissance artists...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites Pistoia
 
La Certosa di Pisa
A certosa is a monastery whose monks belong to the strict Carthusian...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites Pisa
 
Monastero di Camaldoli
In 1012 Saint Romualdo, scion of a noble Ravenna family, came...
Religious Sites Monastero di Camaldoli
 
Musei dell'Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi
At the end of the 11th century, the bishop of Pistoia began construction...
Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites, Archaeological Sites Pistoia
 
Parco Naturale della Maremma
The well-kept nature preserve at Monti dell'Uccellina is an oasis...
Religious Sites, Nature Preserves Parco Naturale della Maremma
 
Piazza dei Cavalieri
The piazza, with its fine Renaissance Palazzo dei Cavalieri,...
Religious Sites, Castles / Palaces, Squares, Educational Institutions Pisa
 
Piccola Gerusaleme di Pitigliano
Now a museum of Jewish culture, the ghetto where Jews took refuge...
Religious Sites, Historic Districts / Sites Pitigliano
 
Pieve di San Marcello
This church dates from the 12th century, though the interior...
Religious Sites San Marcello Pistoiese
 
San Biagio
Designed by Antonio da Sangallo il Vecchio, and considered his...
Religious Sites Montepulciano
 
San Domenico
Although the Duomo is celebrated as a triumph of 13th-century...
Religious Sites Siena
 
San Domenico
Inside the northern city walls, this church was begun by Dominican...
Religious Sites Arezzo
 
San Domenico
Inside this rather anonymous-looking 14th-century church, just...
Religious Sites Cortona
 
San Francesco
The lovely baroque church of San Francesco is a study in understated...
Religious Sites Carrara
 
San Francesco
Look inside the church for the celebrated early-15th-century...
Religious Sites Volterra
 
San Francesco
In the mid-13th century, this Gothic-style church was built on...
Religious Sites Cortona
 
San Frediano
A 14th-century mosaic decorates the facade of this church just...
Religious Sites Lucca
 
San Giovanni Fuorcivitas
An architectural gem in green-and-white marble, the medieval...
Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites Pistoia
 
San Giusto e San Clemente
Built in the 1840s on a Greek-cross plan, this neoclassical church...
Religious Sites Castelnuovo Berardenga
 
San Leolino
Ancient even by Chianti standards, this hilltop church probably...
Religious Sites Panzano
 
San Michele in Foro
The facade here is even more fanciful than that of the Duomo...
Religious Sites Lucca
 
San Michele in Pontorme
A short but not very scenic walk from the center of town brings...
Religious Sites Empoli
 
San Niccolò
A small, cypress-lined courtyard and porch stand in front of...
Religious Sites Cortona
 
San Pellegrino in Alpe
Stop at the San Pellegrino in Alpe monastery en route from Abetone...
Religious Sites Abetone
 
San Piero a Grado
This 11th-century basilica, located 8 km (5 mi) southwest of...
Religious Sites Pisa
 
Sant'Agostino
Make a beeline for Benozzo Gozzoli's superlative 15th-century...
Religious Sites San Gimignano
 
Sant'Agostino
Michelozzo had a hand in creating the beautiful travertine facade...
Religious Sites Montepulciano
 
Sant'Andrea
In the 12th-century church of Sant'Andrea, the fine pulpit by...
Public Art (Mural / Sculpture / Statue), Religious Sites Pistoia
 
Sant'Anna in Camprena
Part of the acclaimed 1996 film The English Patient was filmed...
Religious Sites Pienza
 
Santa Margherita
The large 1897 basilica was constructed over the foundation of...
Religious Sites Cortona
 
Santa Maria al Calcinaio
Legend has it that the image of the Madonna appeared on a wall...
Religious Sites Cortona
 
Santa Maria Assunta
Piazza del Popolo offers a view of the basilica of Santa Maria...
Religious Sites Montecatini Terme
 
Santa Maria Assunta
Situated next to the castle in the upper part of town, this church...
Religious Sites Panzano
 
Santa Maria della Pieve
The curving, tiered apse on Piazza Grande belongs to a fine Romanesque...
Religious Sites Arezzo
 
Santa Maria della Spina
Originally an oratory dating from the 13th century, this gem...
Religious Sites Pisa
 
Santa Maria delle Carceri
The church of Santa Maria delle Carceri was built by Giuliano...
Religious Sites Prato
 
Santa Maria Maggiore
This little 14th-century church on the main square has frescoes...
Religious Sites Sovana
 
Santo Stefano
Originally founded by Augustinians in the 11th century, the church...
Religious Sites Empoli
 
Santuario della Verna
A few hills away from the Monastero di Camaldoli, dramatically...
Religious Sites Santuario della Verna
 
Sinagoga
Down a small street around the corner from Il Campo, this synagogue...
Religious Sites Siena
 
Ss. Giovanni e Reparata
The baptistery of this church is lovely enough, but the unusual...
Religious Sites, Archaeological Sites Lucca
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