16 Sights in Pistoia, Italy (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Pistoia, Italy. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 16 sights are available in Pistoia, Italy.
Sightseeing Tours in Pistoia1. Collezione Gori - Fattoria di Celle
La Fattoria di Celle is a historic complex with a villa dating back to the fifteenth century, located in Santomato, near Pistoia. Since the second half of the twentieth century, the estate has housed the Gori collection, an important collection of contemporary works of art often created expressly for the villa and its park, which together represent one of the most important examples of Land Art in Italy.
2. Pieve di Sant'Andrea
Sant'Andrea is a church in Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy that served as a pieve or place that congregations from surrounding village churches use for baptism. It is dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, and includes the famous Pulpit of Sant' Andrea by Giovanni Pisano. The church probably dates from as early as the 8th century, though in a smaller size. In the 12th century it was extended in length.
3. Immacolata Concezione
The Church of the Immaculate Conception - also known as the Church of San Francesco di Paola or of the Capuchins - is a fourteenth-century church in Pistoia dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, in Via degli Armeni. The facility housed a community of Capuchin Friars Minor until 2012, after which the convent was closed.
4. Battistero di San Giovanni in Corte
The San Giovanni in Corte Baptistery, also known as the Baptistery of San Giovanni di Rotondo, is a former Roman Catholic building in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. The octagonal baptistery stands at a slight angle across a small piazza from the Duomo of Pistoia in the center of town. It is presently used for cultural events.
5. San Paolo
San Paolo is a Roman Catholic church located on Via della Rosa #39 in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. The eclectic church facade sits near the intersection of four streets: Corso Silvani Fedi, Corso Giovanni Amendola, Via Porta Carratica, and Via del Can Bianco, about a block away along Silvani Fedi from the Chiesa del Tau.
6. Santissima Annunziata
The church and convent of the Santissima Annunziata is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on Piazza de Servi #4, Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. The convent presently functions as a warehouse. The church is down via Laudesi from the San Desiderio, and via Piazza de Servi, From San Giovanni Decollato.
7. Ex Oratorio di San Desiderio
The Oratory of San Desiderio is a prayer hall located on Via Laudesi #53 in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. It houses 16th century paintings by Sebastiano Vini, Domenico Cresti, Francesco Curradi, and Matteo Rosselli. The oratory is diagonally across from the apse of Santa Maria Nuova.
8. Chiesa di San Leone
San Leone, once called the oratory or church of Santo Spirito, is a small Baroque-style Roman Catholic church located adjacent to the Vivarelli Colonna in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy. In 2017, restoration of the Baroque era frescoes in the apse and ceilings were completed.
9. Chiesa di San Giovanni Fuorcivitas
San Giovanni Fuoricivitas is a Romanesque religious church and adjacent buildings in Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy. The adjective fuoricivitas refers to it location, outside of the first set of city walls, when it was founded during the era of Lombard rule in Italy.
10. Museo del Ricamo
The Museum of Embroidery is located in Palazzo Rospigliosi in Pistoia and houses and exhibits a collection of embroideries, made from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and the tools and processing techniques of the traditional art of Pistoia embroidery.
11. Cattedrale di San Zeno
Pistoia Cathedral, or Cathedral of Saint Zeno is the main religious building of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the Piazza del Duomo in the centre of the city. It is the seat of the Bishop of Pistoia and is dedicated to Saint Zeno of Verona.
12. San Bartolomeo in Pantano
San Bartolomeo in Pantano is a Romanesque and Gothic style, Roman Catholic church in Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy, dedicated to St. Bartholomew the Apostle. The pantano of the name refers to the once marshy area in which the building was located.
13. San Giovanni Decollato
The church of San Giovanni Battista al Tempio is an 11th-century church in Pistoia dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Hidden in the residential curtain, it has an entrance on both Via di Nemoreto and Via San Pietro.
14. Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Girolamo
The Church of Saints Peter and Jerome is a place of worship designed by the architect Giovanni Michelucci and located in Via di Collina, 6 in the locality of Collina di Pontelungo in the municipality of Pistoia.
15. San Domenico
San Domenico is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in the Piazza of the same name, with a north flank of the nave parallel to Corso Silvani Fedi, in Pistoia, region of Tuscany, Italy.
16. San Biagio
The church of San Biagio or San Biagino, formerly the church of Santa Maria in Borgo Strada, from the street called Burgi Strada, is a Romanesque church located in the center of Pistoia, in Via degli Archi.
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