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Recently completed restorations at the parish church of San Silvestro in Barberino also allowed the recovery of paintings executed inside the church’s nave, commissioned by Tito Chini in 1931 by then-priest Don Giuseppe Focacci. In summary, these included the complete...

The Michelozzian church of the Franciscan convent of Bosco ai Frati is enriched by a series of bright stained-glass windows with a faithfully neo-medieval taste, particularly evident in the presence of the mixed-line frame containing the coats of arms of the families that have...

Inside the small and charming church of S. Giovanni Battista in Senni, nestled in the fertile countryside of Mugello, behind the main altar, we can admire two remarkable figurative stained glass windows, also signed by the San Lorenzo Furnaces: the first features a roundel...

The Confraternity of Mercy of Borgo San Lorenzo, founded in 1847, inaugurated its new headquarters in 1904, designed by the engineer Niccolò Niccolai. The latter was also commissioned to design and direct the construction of a chapel next door, which was soon built and...

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...