The Cappellina del Crocifisso (Church of the Crucifix) in Baroncelli
The Cappellina del Crocifisso di Baroncelli appears in plans of the Captains of the Guelph, mapping streets surrounding Florence made by the Florentine Judiciary...
Villa la Tana
Magnificence and splendor are the words to describe Villa la Tana.
The ancient Medici villa, built in the middle of the fifteenth century and home...
La strada vicinale del Bencistà e del Monasteraccio (The local road...
After a few hundred meters, the trail leads to a paved path that, in the past, led up to the hill moving away from...
Arco del Camicia
The place that now appears like an obscure and anonymous hamlet, with large apartment blocks lining the narrow street without sidewalks, until the middle...
The tabernacle of Bencistà
The tabernacle documented since the sixteenth century has suffered the fate of the many spread throughout countryside: tampered with and damaged by vandals who...
Fata Morgana’s Spring
Io son quella, o lettor, fata Morgana
che giovin qui ringioveniva altrui
Qui dal Vecchietto, poiché vecchia io fui
ringiovenita colla sua fontana.
I am, oh reader, the...
The Parish Church of Santa Maria
The Parish Church of Santa Maria in the Piazza dell'Antella. The building dates back to the year one thousand as confirmed by an official...
Casa la Croce or Palazzaccio
On the left side, half-hidden by a green hedge, is a beautiful building of medieval origin used as a farmhouse in the past and...
Torre di Terigi
The high tower, still intact, belonged to the Peruzzi family in the fourteenth century and, in the next century, to the Carucci.
After several...
Tabernacles
Bagno a Ripoli is full of tabernacles located throughout the territory.
The tabernacle is a sacred aedicule which protects a sacred image or an object...
