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Basilica di San Frediano

Piazza S. Frediano, 55100 Lucca LU

S. Maria Forisportam known as S. M. Bianca

Santa Maria Forisportam, detta Santa Maria Bianca

San Pietro Somaldi

Piazza San Pietro Somaldi, Lucca

SS.Giovanni e Reparata

Santi Giovanni e Reparata Lucca

Archaeological site of the church SS. Giovanni and Reparata

Piazza S. Giovanni, 55100 Lucca LU

The church of SS. Giovanni and Reparata, together with its baptistery annex, is situated in the south-eastern part of the town and was built in the Vth century a.D. The complex was the first in the...

Badia San Bartolomeo

Badia San Bartolomeo, Cantignano

The abbey of San Bartolomeo in Cantignano is one of the most significant architectural monuments in the territory of Capannori. With the typical single-nave plan of the conventual structures the...

Cathedral of San Martino

Pietrasanta

The church of San Martino is the cathedral of Pietrasanta; it faces the long square in front of the monumental church and convent of Sant'Agostino. Built immediately after the foundation of...

Cattedrale di San Martino di Lucca

San Martino, Lucca

The cathedral of San Martino in Lucca was built in the south-eastern corner of the Roman town. The façade is linked, through the bell tower, to the old building of the 'Opera del...

Chiesa collegiata di S. Andrea

Via Roma 16 Montecarlo Lucca

The Church was built in XIV century. It dominates the village, as it is the highest building of it. This is the reason why from its foundation, it was forbidden to go up to the roof, for preventing...

Church and Monastery of San Francesco

Barga

An important legacy, together with the near-by monastery, of the strong Franciscan following in the area in the 15th century, this church houses many valuable, Florentine, polychrome, glazed...

Church of Saints Giuseppe and Maria Maddalena

Parrocchia dei SS. Giuseppe e Maria Maddalena Pietrasanta, località Valdicastello Via Valdicastello Carducci 55045 Pietrasanta LU Italia

The new Parish Church of Valdicastello is above all noted for its interior furnishings which include works originally held at the Parish Church of Saints Giovanni and Felicita, such as a valuable...

Church of San Cristoforo

Via Fillungo, ., 55100 Lucca LU

The church of San Cristoforo is in the central part of the town, along via Fillungo. It is a basilica with three aisles and a roof supported by trusses. The façade, with rows of perfectly...

Church of San Paolino and San Donato

via San Paolino Lucca

San Paolino and San Donato's church is an example of a Renaissance church. It is in the homonymous street and it is known with San Paolino's name. In 1261, after the discovery of the...

Parish Church of Saints Giovanni Battista and Stefano

Chiesa San Giovanni Battista e San Stefano Camaiore, località La Pieve Piazza Don Renzo Gori 55041 Camaiore LU Italia

This extremely old and powerful Parish Church, well preserved in its 12th century appearance, was forced to give up power to the previously dependent Church of S. Maria after this was re-founded in...

Parish Church of San Giorgio in Brancoli

Pieve di Brancoli,Lucca

This building, along with the Church of S. Alessandro of Lucca and the Parish Church of Valdottavo, is one of the finest and most important examples of the new architectural and figurative language...

Pieve dei Santi Quirico e Giulitta

Casabasciana

With 10th century origins, this parish church was renovated in the 13th and 14th century, when it received its present day arrangement of nave and two side aisles. Abandoned following the development...

Pieve Santo Stefano

Pieve Santo Stefano, Lucca

The parish church of Santo Stefano was built during the 12th century with a three-nave plan with an apse: surrounded by olive groves, it dominates one of the most beautiful parts of the...

Saint Andrea di Corsena

Fosciandora, Ceserana

This church, documented since the 12th century, is located within a fortress with which it shares historical-artistic events. Although externally it maintains its original Romanesque characteristics,...

Saints Pietro and Paolo

Careggine

Founded by a Lombard noble as his personal church, it became one of the major parish churches of Garfagnana in the 10th century. Of its medieval past there remains a stone slab sculpted with...

Saints Pietro and Paolo

Castelnuovo Garfagnana

Founded in the 10th century, this church was reconstructed in the 15th century and repeatedly restored after the Second World War, which removed all traces of the baroque. The interior furnishings...

Saints Simone and Giuda

Santi Simone e Giuda Lucca

This old church, presently closed to worship, was rebuilt in the 13th century. Its interior has a wealth of furnishings, including a polyptych of Spinello Aretino, now divided among various museums...

Saints Sisto and Margherita

Villa Collemandina

Documented as a subsidiary of the Fosciana Parish Church since the 12th century, this church underwent complete restoration following the devastating earthquake of 1920, whose epicentre was precisely...

San Bartolomeo

Borgo a Mozzano, località Cune, Via XX Settembre, 55023 Borgo a Mozzano

The small church of San Bartolomeo stands a short distance from the current inhabited area of Cune, of which it used to be the parish church. The new church of the town, today also dedicated to...

San Bartolomeo a Formentale

Lucca, località Formentale, Via di Formentale, 55100 Lucca LU

A settlement is documented in this area since the 9th century, but the church of San Bartolomeo is attested for the first time in the Rationes Decimarum (the register of tithes that each...

San Benedetto in Gottella

Chiesa di San Benedetto in Gottella Piazza Bernardini, 55100 Lucca LU Italia

The church of San Benedetto in Gottella, mentioned in documents since the end of the 9th century, was completely reconstructed in the 12th century in brickwork with a sandstone façade and...

San Biagio

San Biagio, Camaiore Lombrici

On the hills behind Camaiore rises the small village of Lombrici, enriched by a small late Romanesque church which, despite the changes it underwent in the following centuries, still preserves the...

San Cassiano

San Cassiano di Controne

The striking Church of S. Cassiano in Controne is the first to be recorded in Val di Lima, in documents from Lucca dated to 722. With its façade with a profusion of Longobard sculpture, it...

San Cristoforo

Barga

This church, dating to the 12th century, has a splendid, scenographic and unusual façade with a horizontal emphasis, important presbyterial, medieval interior furnishings and a singular, huge,...

San Cristoforo di Lammari

Capannori, località Lammari, Via S. Cristoforo, 55013 Capannori LU

The church of San Cristoforo di Lammari, built between the end of the XIth and the beginning of the XIIth century, stands upon a previous early medieval building. Of particular interest are the...

San Donato

san Donato, Domazzano

The small church of San Donato is located on the outskirts of the town of Domazzano and shares its medieval origins with the nearby church of San Lorenzo, but is much better preserved than the...

San Donnino

via san Donnino, Lucca

In the area between the cathedral and the present Via Santa Croce, whose layout follows that of the Roman decuman, numerous religious institutions arose in the Middle Ages: among them the church of...

San Francesco

San Francesco, Lucca

The Lucchese church of San Francesco is in the east side of the town outside the XIIth century walls. The very simple building consists of a vast hall with brick walls; the roof, supported by...

San Frediano

san Frediano , Lunata

The parish church of San Frediano a Lunata has early medieval origins but the current building has been renovated several times. The camapanaria tower, built in the 13th century, has survived...

San Gennaro

Via Ilio Menicucci 130, Capannori, località San Gennaro, Capannori LU

The parish church of San Gennaro is at the centre of the homonymous village that developed during the Middle Ages around the church. The building is one of the best examples of Romanesque...

San Giacomo Apostolo

Camporgiano

The church, of very early origins, was badly damaged by the earthquake of 1920 and substituted by the opportunely modified oratory of the Trinity. It contains a 14th century painting of the Madonna...

San Giovanni (Pieve Vecchia)

Via della Pieve Vecchia, 567, 55100 Lucca LU

Known as Pieve Vecchia, the church of San Giovanni in Santa Maria del Giudice is actually more recent than a few decades compared to the so-called Pieve Nuova and owes its name to the fact that it...

San Giovanni Battista

Pieve di Cerreto

First documented in the 10th century, the apsidal part of this old Parish Church is still intact, making it one of the most interesting examples of medieval architecture in the Lucca area.

San Giovanni Battista

Lucca, Arliano

This is one of the oldest parish churches in the diocese, located in the west of the Lucca plain at the foot of Mount Quiesa, in a dominant and isolated position in relation to the parish that was...

San Giovanni Battista - Pieve di Controne

Controne

First documented in the 9th century and Mother Church of the Controne area in the 10th century, the Parish Church of Controne served numerous surrounding communities, some of which went on to have...

San Giovanni Battista di Monsagrati

Monsagrati

The pieve of San Giovanni di Monsagrati stands isolated from the village in a dominant position overlooking Val Freddana. Its architecture is simple and linear, almost without decoration and has...

San Giusto

San Giusto Lucca

The Church of S. Giusto, built between the 12th and 13th century, was decontextualised by the demolishment in 1932 of all the buildings that surrounded it. The interior has an array of baroque forms.

San Giusto alla Caipira

San Giusto alla Caipira

The church of San Giusto alla Caipira, considered by some to be the oldest religious construction in the territory of the diocese of Lucca, still maintains large portions of construction dating back...

San Jacopo

Gallicano

Built between the 12th and 13th century, this church replaced the old Parish Church that was demolished for the re-use of its building materials at the end of the 15th century. Its interior features...

San Jacopo Maggiore

Altopascio

This church formed part of the Altopascio Hospital run by the Religious Order of the Knights of Tau who assisted pilgrims, wayfarers and the poor and treated the sick. Of the 12th century church...

San Leonardo in Treponzio

Capannori, località S.Leonardo in Treponzio, Via del Borgo, 55012 Capannori LU

The church of San Leonardo in Treponzio, midway between the hamlet of Compito and the small town of Capannori, was built at the beginning of the XIIth century. The rich and original decorations on...

San Leonardo o Chiesa vecchia

San Leonardo, Aquilea Lucca

In the surroundings of Aquilea, in Castellaccio, there are the remains of the ancient church of San Leonardo, replaced already from the end of the 17th century by a new church, first in Villa...

San Lorenzo

Chiesa San Lorenzo, Domazzano

Compared to the nearby church of San Donato, which stands on the outskirts of the town, that of San Lorenzo, elevated above the town by a 200-step paved road, has undergone many changes to its...

San Lorenzo a Segromigno in Monte

Segromigno in Monte , Capannori

Traditionally documented as among the parish churches founded by S. Frediano, the earliest reference to the Parish Church of S. Lorenzo in Segromigno dates to 816. The present day plan, apart from...

San Lorenzo di Brancoli

Brancoli

First documented in the 13th century, this small church almost entirely conserves its original medieval structure. Only the upper part of the bell tower shows signs of a later reconstruction. The...

San Lorenzo di Moriano

Via della Chiesa XXVII, 643, 55100 S.Michele e Lorenzo

The small church of San Lorenzo di Moriano presents today, with its plastered façade, an aspect that hardly suggests its medieval origin, but it still distinguishes its layout and inserts it...

San Lorenzo di Vinacciara

Minucciano, località Pieve S. lorenzo

The parish church of San Lorenzo a Minucciano is situated in upper Aulella valley, in the middle of a number of villages and castles that were under its jurisdiction. In the Middle Ages around the...

San Martino

San Martino Coreglia

The town of Coreglia Antelminelli stands on the remains of an ancient castle, from which it draws its compact urban structure. The castle church was that of San Michele, while the church of San...

San Martino a Seravezza

Seravezza

This old church used to be preceded by a portico (destroyed during the Second World War) that is linked to Michelangelo. The 17th and 18th century interior is also remarkable.

San Martino in Ducentola

san martino in ducentola, marlia

Like the nearby San Giusto alla Caipira, this small church with a single nave is a very precious example of early medieval architecture in the territory of the diocese of Lucca.

San Martino in Greppo

San Martino in Greppo, Diecimo

The small church of San Martino in Greppo, recently restored, stands on the route of the ancient road that connected the Lucca area to the Lunigiana and the Po Valley through the Apennine passes and...

San Michele

località S.Michele in Escheto Via della Chiesa di S. Michele in Escheto 55100 Lucca LU

The small but important church of San Michele in Escheto is attested from the early Middle Ages but was completely rebuilt at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries: construction and...

San Michele a Coreglia

Coreglia Antelminell

This originally castellan church, located in town centre, dates to the 12th century. It houses a number of valuable works, including a shrine attributed to Matteo Civitali and a sculpture by Lupo di...

San Michele di Antraccoli

Via Vecchia Romana, 877, 55100 Capannori LU

The church of San Michele of Antraccoli was founded in 777, as private chapel of an aristocratic family; in the XIIth century a village grew around it. The church was then rebuilt along Romanesque...

San Michele di Castiglione Garfagnana

55033 Castiglione di Garfagnana LU

The church of San Michele is one of the most representative medieval religious buildings in the rural area around Lucca. For its construction material taken from distant quarries, sometimes many...

San Michele in Foro

San Michele Lucca

The church of San Michele in Foro of Lucca is ideally as well as physically in the heart of the ancient Roman town. It is a basilica with three aisles, transept and semicircular apse; the nave is...

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