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San Gimignano

San Gimignano, on the way Francigena Parish Cellole
Pieve di Santa Maria a Cellole
Francigena on the road, a charming place, in addition to the sanctuary of Pancole, the Pieve di Santa Maria a Cellule is a quiet corner. In an area dominated by the Etruscans, a cell can also find tracks, the church is a special oasis of tranquility.
A special monument in its structural aspect, in its icnografia, a larger front that high, as seen over time in many other churches in the area, dated 1238, but that very little remained of the original (the portal clear influence pisan and the cruciform slot in the cusp), the rest being the result of a restored nineteenth century, epigraphic records confirm that, together with the age of the building, the transfer of the parish from elsewhere, a unique decorative elements available to dell'abside that suggests to an incorrect "replacement". The monument has its own house, the great basilicas and outside the suggestion of its inclusion in a harmonious environment that has few ugnali and that those for the general inspiration for Puccini's Suor Angelica.
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