The complex could date back to the 13th century, and is made up of the church, the bell tower, the cloister and lastly the rectory. Major restoration work took place at the end of the 1960s.
I await my friends Adriano and Gildo at LORO CIUFFENNA for a spring trip on Setteponti.
This ancient Etruscan-Roman road always offers wonderful views and thousand-year-old parish churches. This morning we go to Reggello, to the recently renovated Parish Church of SANT'AGATA AD ARFOLI. Perhaps one of the least known together with the Parish Church of San Giustino Valdarno as they are not located on busy streets.
This parish church also owes its construction, like many in this area, to Countess Matilde of Canossa. Some researchers trace the foundation of the church back to the Gothic period but certain documents speak of this structure only in 1230.
The road that takes us to the Pieve is a succession of "eat and drink", not important but numerous. In the end there will be over 900 meters of dsl in sixty-seven kilometers with a short climb of 11 percent just to reach the Pieve da loc. Gates.
Consisting of a church, bell tower, cloister and rectory, the Sant'Agata complex underwent extensive restoration work in the late 1960s: the Romanesque façade was freed from a Renaissance-style antepartment in fake stone, added in 1928. Under the portico, leaning against the facade, there were frescoes depicting scenes from the life of Sant'Agata, now relocated in the presbytery. The bell tower, with the robust shape of a bell tower, was added to the primitive Romanesque tower in 1665, as attested by an inscription in the cornice. In the frame of the tympanum we noticed four small and worn human heads, decorative elements characteristic of the 11th and 12th centuries. The interior, with a single nave, is also very interesting, both for the architectural structure and for the exquisite paintings that adorn its walls. From a door located in the right transept it is possible to access the cloister. The date carved on the entrance portal reveals that the cloister was built in 1228, perhaps in place of a simple pre-existing courtyard.
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