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  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...

The foundation of the convent and the church of San Carlo, held by the Capuchin order, dates back to the early 1600s on the initiative of some gentlemen from Florence, who owned estates in Mugello and who in 1612 asked the “Podesteria” of Borgo San Lorenzo a place where they...

The villa of Rimorelli, known as Villa Pecori Giraldi, from the name of the noble Florentine family who owned it for a long time, was donated in 1979 to the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo. The large building is originally medieval and was built as a fortress of the Giraldi...

La chiesa di Santa Maria a Soli, nelle campagne di Galliano, di impianto romanico, è costruita in bel filaretto regolare  con  robusti contrafforti, vi è una nicchia con una terracotta, originariamente smaltata,  e ha la facciata  a capanna con portale in pietra sormontato da una...

The most ancient and most important work of art to be found in the Pieve di San Lorenzo at Borgo San Lorenzo is visible above the first pillar of the right aisle: this is a painted tablet depicting the Madonna and Child (the only remains of the latter are two small arms...