San Lorenzo in Montalbiolo

• … 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 has kept its original twelfth-century structure with an uncommon “T” plan, with its central projecting transept and apse, it was modified between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The original sandstone masonry has also been kept. Another distinctive characteristic is the hut-like façade with traces of the medieval portal which was replaced in the sixteenth century. The interior, a single nave covered with a wooden ceiling supported by   trusses, houses a stone altar erected by Bonaccorsi (between 1730 and 1740) which frames a panel from 1605 depicting San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence). It was painted by Giovanni Bozzelli (1550-1612), a Florentine pupil of Alessandro Allori. There is also a Virgin Mary of the school of Andrea del Sarto. The ancient bells, dating back to 1111, must be noted.   For openings and visits contact the parish priest of Carmignano (tel. 055.8712046)

Directions. Between the hamlets of Serra and Carmignano, turn toward the hill of Montalbiolo. A road leads to a group of rural buildings (Il vicinato), after which, a drivable dirt road leads to the church of San Lorenzo, now isolated in the countryside.
(From “Chiese romaniche nel Montalbano” brochure  of Prato Apt edited by Katia Corrado)