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Art History and Culture in the Museums of Chianti



Apart from marvellous landscapes and excellent food-and-wine specialities, a holiday in the Chianti region offers an almost unique series of artistic and historical beauties: not only churches, villas and castles, but also museums! The five museums of Chianti form a "museum circuit": you can visit them all with a sole ticket!! The museums house valuable paintings and statues, refined goldsmithery items and vestments, as well as interesting Etruscan and Roman archaeological finds (for more information visit www.chiantimusei.it).

  • The ex-monastery of San Francesco hosts Greve in Chianti Museum of Sacred Art, an excellent example of the artistic vitality of the region. The most important work of art housed in the museum is a recently-renovated polychrome terracotta piece representing a "Lamentation over the dead Christ".

  • Apart from Renaissance works of art, the Museum of San Casciano hosts an archaeological section and one devoted to the dwellings of the primitives, whom children will certainly love. It is situated in the church of Santa Maria del Gesů, at the centre of the town.

  • The Museum of the Treasure of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Impruneta is divided into three main sections: one dedicated to illuminated manuscripts, one dedicated to goldsmithery and one dedicated to vestments and church plate. You will certainly remain spellbound looking at these beautiful works of art of exquisite workmanship, especially if you think about the tools the artists used!

  • Though it is not in the Chianti Classico region, the Antiquarium di Sant`Appiano, in Barberino Val d`Elsa, is nevertheless part of the circuit and is really worth a visit. The small museum houses Hellenic, Etruscan, Roman and medieval archaeological finds.

  • Tavarnelle in Val di Pesa Museum of Sacred Art is situated next to the Pieve of San Piero in Bossolo. It houses a wide collection of goldsmithery items and sculptures, and a collection of paintings representative of the skills of the many Tuscan minor painters.

  • Last but not least, in Tavarnelle you can also visit the less-noble but certainly interesting Museum of Peasant Culture, which has its seat in the castle of San Donato in Poggio and houses a collection of furnishings and tools used in rural Chianti.

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