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San Miniato is a town and comune in the province of Pisa, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. San Miniato sits at an historically strategic location atop three small hills where it dominates the lower Arno valley, between the valleys of Egola and Elsa rivers.
Palazzo Grifoni is a former aristocratic palace located in Piazza Grifoni San Miniato, in the Piazza Grifoni in the western side of the historic center of the town of San Miniato, province of Pisa, region of Tuscany, Italy. Piazza Grifoni lies along the same road that becomes Via Giosue Carducci to the south west and Via IV Novembre, after the ...
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The idea of a burial site near San Miniato was conceived around 1837, although the camposanto was inaugurated eleven years later, in 1848.. The project, originally entrusted to architect Niccolò Matas (the designer of the facade of the Basilica of Santa Croce), was enlarged and in 1864 Mariano Falcini used the area of the sixteenth-century fortress lying around the church.
On the left bank, winding up the hill of San Miniato the Viale dei Colli was built, [2] an 8 kilometers long street lined with trees ending at the Piazzale Michelangelo, which was built as a broad terrace with a panoramic city view. [3] Bronze cast of David facing Florence from the center of the square
Roffia is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of San Miniato, province of Pisa.It is located along the southern banks of the Arno river, about 4 km from the municipal center of San Miniato and about 50 km from Pisa.
The Cemetery from the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte by Hans von Bartels. Adjacent to the church is the fine cloister , planned as early as 1426 and built from 1443 to mid-1450s. It was also designed by Bernardo and Antonio Rosselino, and financed by the Arte della Mercantia of Florence, [ 5 ] and the fortified bishop's palace, built in 1295 ...
Frescoes in Duomo of San Miniato. In 1734–1735, along with Gaetano Castellani and Mauro Soderini, he frescoed the walls of the cloister of St Francis in San Casciano in Val di Pesa. The frescoes depict events in the Life of St Francis. [3] He also helped decorate the presbytery (1719–1720) of the church of Santa Maria Novella of Marti, Italy.