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The construction and decoration of the Town Hall building was completed and inaugurated in 1931, thanks to the project collaboration between the council engineer Augusto Lorini and Tito Chini. The building shows a plain and linear architecture on the outside, but inside there are...

Today the medieval Palace of the Chief Magistrate is the seat of the municipal library. It probably dates back to the mid-13th century and was already quite damaged in the early twentieth century. Another very serious damage was caused by the earthquake of June 1919, a...

The Oratory of SS. Crocifisso was built in the 18th century on the site of the Company of Corpus Domini, also called “dei Battuti and dei Neri”, whose seat was erected right on its left side, and it holds the Holy Crucifix, a secular-venerated wooden sculpture of the...

The Viale della Repubblica is the result of the building expansion of the town towards the railway station, which took place in the early years of the twentieth century. Formerly named as Viale Umberto I, it presents notable and numerous architectural decorations in the villas...

  The current appearance of the Cemetery of Mercy is the result of changes that occurred in the first thirty years of the 1900s; above all,  we remember those described in the numerous projects and drawings by the engineers Niccolò Niccolai and Severino Crott, and architect Ugo...

The villa was built by Chino Chini around 1923, as a residence for himself and his family in Borgo San Lorenzo, near the Fornaci San Lorenzo. At that time, in fact, Chino took care of the manufacturing and therefore he had the need to live close by. It is an original construction...

This building was designed by the engineer Severino Crott in 1928 and inaugurated in 1930 as the headquarters of the Casa del Fascio (House of Fascism). The large ceramic eagle in relief and the polychrome glass still preserved on the façade were made by the Chini manufacture;...

In 1906 Galileo Chini, who, together with his cousin Chino, had founded the Fornaci San Lorenzo in that year, participates in an important restoration campaign inside the millenary Romanesque church of San Lorenzo. The large painting in the apse is surely the most demanding of...

Along Via San Francesco, on the facade of the chapel of the monastery of Santa Caterina it is possible to see a polychrome ceramic lunette depicting the meeting between St. Francis and St. Dominic. The figures of the two Saints stand out on a golden background, surrounded by a...

The history of the Oratory of Sant’Omobono is related to the ancient Company of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mary, known as the Blues (“Azzurri”) for the color of the dress worn by its members, who had their headquarters in Piazza Castelvecchio. In the second half of the 18th...