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. Palazzo Manni
Palazzo Manni is a historic building in Pistoia, Italy. Built by the Counts Manni in the historic center of the city of Pistoia. The Counts Manni were since the Middle Ages owners of vast possessions in the area between Lamporecchio, Larciano and San Baronto. In 1400 the Manni family had become one of the most politically influential families and one of the largest taxpayers of Pistoia. So much so that he commissioned the construction of a complex of four palaces in the city center, which will take the name of Palazzo Manni.
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. Collezione Gori - Fattoria di Celle
Fattoria di Celle is a historic complex with a 15th-century villa in Santomato, near Pistoia. Since the second half of the 20th century, the estate has been home to the Gori Collection, an important collection of contemporary art works, often made specifically for villas and their parks, and generally representing one of the most important examples of Italian land art.
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 embroidery, 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. Immacolata Concezione
The church of the Immaculate Conception - also known as the church of San Francesco di Paola or dei Cappuccini - is a Pistoia church of the fourteenth century dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, in via degli Armeni.
14. San Giovanni Decollato
San Giovanni Battista al Tempio is a church in the Italian region of Pistoia dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It is hidden in the curtains of the house and has an entrance in both via di Nemoreto and via San Pietro.
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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