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In 1926, it was celebrated the seventh centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, a very important anniversary in Mugello, a land where the Franciscan Third Order had a deep-rooted presence. This monumental shrine was built as part of the numerous initiatives taken in Borgo...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – At the side walls of the church there are eight carved stone altars, characterized by decorations of classic and Renaissance taste of remarkable quality and variety. Most likely these were made at the beginning of the sixteenth...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – This lunette-shaped fresco comes from the adjacent Dominican monastery of Saint Catherine from Siena and represents a “sacred conversation” to which three saints of the Dominican Order and the protector of Borgo San...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The canvas depicts two of the most popular and beloved saints in the adoration of the Child standing on an open book (the Gospel?). The painting can be interpreted as a devotional work that can be traced back to the seventeenth...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – Dating back to 1615 when, according to sources, the altar in which it was placed was founded by the Borgo S. Lorenzo citizen Vittorio Grossi, perhaps in memory of some pestilence (or other negative event) and attributed to Matteo...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – This table painting is one of the most relevant masterpieces preserved within the pieve in Borgo S. Lorenzo. It represents the main figure, stationary and languidly in a slightly spiral motion, accompanied by an old bearded saint,...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The canvas depicts Saint John the Evangelist who, sitting on the lower left side, appears in the act of writing on a book, with the back of three saints identifiable in Saint Antonino, Bishop of Florence and dominican, St....

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The mural painting, a dry tempera type, placed in the apse area of the pieve represents, in the center, the Pantocrator (i.e. omnipotent) Christ, sitting on a throne of clouds and embedded within a golden almond. His right hand...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The large polychrome wooden Crucifix that stands at the centre of the presbytery comes from the closed-down church of St Francis, from which it probably arrived here after the Napoleonic suppression of 1808 and, according to recent...

BORGO SAN LORENZO (pieve di San Lorenzo) – The small door made from carved stone, open in the apse space of the Pieve, originally led to adjacent rooms and on the architrave it is visible the coat of arms of Jacopo by Giovanni Ugolini, who was the holder of the pieve from...