Starting from the Fair Field, an area once used as a livestock market where you can enjoy a splendid view on the 'whole valley of the Tiber, the route begins with a visit to the Rectory of St. Maria delle Grazie, also called Church of the ditch because it is located along the route of the ancient moat outside the walls:
built in the eighteenth century, the church is the latest in the historic center and keeps century paintings including the Last Supper The washing of the feet and the Florentine painter Giovanni Antonio Soglianied a Deposition from the Cross by Domenico di Bartolomeo said Ubaldini The Puligo; also behind the main altar is an altarpiece of the XVI century glazed terracotta, representing Our Lady of Mercy from the workshop of Andrea della Robbia.
Leaving the church we face the Rectory field, that the tower, where it is placed the clock, built in the late sixteenth century. on the ruins of an older, we continue to admire the walls that surround the town, and almost uniform in their features intact thirteenth century, with the exception of the South Bastion said the Vicar, designed in 1553 by Girolamo Magi commissioned by Cosimo I de 'Medici.
The area is also located in this Conventone, or keep at the fortress that was born from the transformation of the ancient monastery of St. Camaldolese Bartholomew, who was one of the elements that once made up the 'castellum', around which was formed the first settlement of Anghiari.
Conventone is next to the Praetorian Palace, now the city hall, with its facade decorated with coats of arms of the vicars and mayor that have followed in the administration of justice on behalf of the Florentine government: once seat of the Court retains the floor ground some 'secret', a chapel and a fresco of Justice, by the fifteenth century. probably be attributed to Antonio di Anghiari, the first of the great local artist Piero della Francesca.
Coming down from Piazza del Popolo to one of the charming medieval streets, you come in front of the Abbey Church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew: ancient origin, perhaps rock, the church was the first place of worship in Anghiari. Rebuilt in the fourteenth century by Tarlati., Was subsequently expanded in 1447: the characteristic is within its asymmetric structure. Exquisite workmanship of the altar to the left whose central part, performed according to Vasari, designed by Guillaume de Marcillat, keeps a wooden sculpture depicting the Madonna and Child by Tino di Camaino.
Eighteenth-century high altar is a wooden Crucifix (late thirteenth and early fourteenth century.) Of the Tuscan area, but linked to the art of Nordic type, has always felt the object of popular devotion.
Right in front of the Abbey Church is the former church of Corpus Domini, which was built in the first half of the sixteenth century, now houses the Museum of Mercy who collects objects and documents relating to the history and activity on the territory of This Brotherhood was founded in 1564 to help the poor, the sick and bury the dead.
Walking along the narrow streets of the village you will reach the quarter-century palace where you will find Taglieschi Borghetto, site of the State Museum which houses works of art from churches and historic buildings of the Tiber valley and land use objects representing the cultural traditions and economic community.
The building belonged to the family of Anghiari Taglieschi, was built by captain Matthew dog and is an example of fifteenth-century architecture to private residential use, however, retains traces of medieval characters. Within the collections range from stone materials for frescoes, sculptures, paintings, tools and keys to the beautiful polychrome wood sculptures from various periods between which highlights the extraordinary Virgin of the Annunciation by Jacopo della Quercia.
Other important pieces are glazed terracotta altarpiece depicting a Nativity by Andrea della Robbia, a positive organ table of the first half of the sixteenth century and paintings of the Florentine school of the seventeenth century by Matteo Rosselli and Jacopo Vignali.
marzoccoDi front of Palazzo Taglieschi you can admire Palazzo del Marzocco, the Museum of the Battle: it takes its name from the statue which is located in the corner, that the Florentine Marzocco, symbol of popular sovereignty.
The Renaissance building is born to the noble family of Angelieri the first floor houses an interesting plastic reminiscent of the final stage of the famous Battle of Anghiari, which was fought June 29, 1440 between the Florentine troops allied with the papal army and Visconti. The fame of this battle is closely linked to the name of Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned to celebrate the victory of Florence, to represent this event in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence: the work of the great teacher, unfortunately, no trace remains, except in copies made by later artists, such as seventeenth-century copper engraving by Gérard Edelinck kept at the British Museum in London.
Inside the Palazzo del Marzocco, there are reproductions of the other three representations of the Battle of Anghiari taken from wedding chests, including one in the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and a large canvas painted by the Bolognese offering Vittoria Chierici a personal interpretation of the fight.
Piazza Mameli turned down through an alley you will reach Via Ronda, a picturesque route that the road network was located in the northern part of the walls, which in mid-fifteenth century, the tower is plugged semicircular apse of the Church of S. Augustine, singular solution derived military architecture adopted by Francesco di Giorgio Martini for the apse of the cathedral of Urbino from this place you can enjoy a splendid view over the Plain of Anghiari, which is the plain that was the scene of the Battle.
Leaving the Ronda Road and passing through the Porta Nuova and in Fiorentina reached the main square: Piazza Baldaccio Bruni, Mercatale a time where you can admire the fourteenth straight highway that connects the village only 6 km to the nearby Sansepolcro .
The path then continues through the Jerome Gallery Magi, called the lodges, opened in 1889 and for years the seat of the covered market of seeds and grains, which introduces us to Piazza IV Novembre, where stands the Theatre Ricomposti building is part of the eighteenth century complex desired by Benedict courses including the Chapel, now converted into a Temple Votive to the fallen and the Palace next door, home to city offices.
Looking back through The Lodges can finally go back to the Church and Convent of the Cross that serves as an ideal backdrop to the long highway fourteenth-century architecture built by Bishop Guido of Arezzo Anghiari and Sansepolcro Tarlati to join.
The origin of this church is linked to the passage from Anghiari S. Francis in 1224, returning from the holy mountain of La Verna, where he received the stigmata, he planted a cross at the junction of three paths, the place where now stands the sixteenth-century church dedicated precisely to the Cross.
Inside there are works by Domenico Passignano, Giovan Battista Susini and seventeenth-century work with the Finding of the Cross.
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