San Leonardo in Artimino

• … and they used to rinse clothes in the Ombrone
• After September 8th 1943
• Between the twenties and thirties
• Corrado Capecchi, military internee
  • A medal (at last) for Corrado
  • The joke of the military internees
• Five places of Romanesque Carmignano
• Friar Bocci, at the beginning of the twentieth century
• From archaeologists to farmers
• Gino Balena
• Gino di Fico
• Historical shops in Carmignano
• In the name of Jesus and Saint Peter, may the sty go away
• Liberation day
• Matteucci, the ‘forgotten’ bishop
• Soldier in Greece
• Stories from a school notebook
• Stories of donkeys and jockeys
• Stories of mayors and town councils in Carmignano
• Stories of our home
• Stories of war and displaced persons
• The Battistina and other scary stories
• The colours of the rioni
• The Golden Roster
• The last sharecropper in Carmignano
• The siege in memory of the Princess
• The tree of liberty in Carmignano
• Ugo Contini Bonacossi
• Vittorio’s bicycles
• When the river Arno was fordable ..
• When they were digging pietra serena between Arno and Ombrone
• The colours of Carmignano, a small guide for tourists
  • Ancient churches and abbeys. Montalbano, a crossroads for pilgrims.
    • San Giusto al Pinone
    • San Jacopo in Capezzana
    • San Leonardo in Artimino
    • San Lorenzo in Montalbiolo
    • San Martino in Campo
    • San Michele amarcord
      • San Michele, the theater takes to the streets
• Itineraries for just a few days or more
  • Walking through history and nature
  • A Sunday devoted to the discovery of Artimino
  • A few words about the hamlets of Carmignano
  • The Fontina and Castagnati Lake
• Guides to download

This church is already mentioned in an imperial document dated 998 AD. Since then the building has not undergone significant transformations and remains today a rare example of pre-Romanesque Tuscan building. Inspired by Lombard style, it is accessible by a staircase that leads to a sixteenth century loggia preceding the facade. The three apses and the bell tower are also striking external elements. Also on the facade, the Etruscan reliefs (now replaced by plaster copies) stand out . They were found in Etruscan urns. The church may be situated on a necropolis. The interior of this church, made of three naves divided by pillars, has partially kept the sandstone masonry. There are many works of art kept in it: a table attributed to Franciabigio from the sixteenth century (1509), a polychrome terracotta by a Robbian workshop (1515), which represents a “Visitation” and the fresco of “the Blessing Christ ” (XV sec.) by a Tuscan artist from the school of Agnolo Gaddi. The building can be visited on weekdays by appointment by calling 055.8718068, or on Sundays and public holidays from 10.30 am to 12 and from 16 to 18 in the summer and from 14 to 16 in winter.

Directions. Take via della Chiesa from Artimino. A little further down the village, descending towards Camaioni, there is the parish church.
(From “Chiese romaniche nel Montalbano” brochure Prato Apt edited by Katia Corrado)