Best places: Catholic churches in Vecchiano, Italy

Grand marble-striped cathedral known for its ornate Romanesque bronze doors & carved 1300s pulpit.

Large medieval baptistery praised for its acoustics, with panels by renowned sculptor Pisano.

Gothic-style 13th-century Catholic church featuring a pulpit from which St. Thomas Aquinas preached.

Small church built in the 1200s featuring an ornate gothic facade, many statues & a painted ceiling.

This Catholic church from the early 11th century features Romanesque design & notable murals.

Church with frescoes & an arcaded facade, built in the 10th & 11th centuries over a Roman temple.

🫤 Daily mass at 9am.

Romanesque 11th-century church with tilting octagonal bell tower & facade with geometric mosaics.

👍👍 The church of S. Sisto, called in Cortevecchia because it was located in the place where the court of the counts of Pisa stood, and probably previously of the Lombard gastalds, was founded after the victorious enterprise of 1087 against the Saracens of Al Mahdiya and Zawila in Tunisia. The building,...

Early-12th-century medieval church built to resemble the rotunda of Jerusalem's Holy Sepulchre.

👍 Semplicemente bella nella sua essenzialità. Va visitare se in zona.

14th-century church rebuilt after WWII, known for its exterior mural by pop artist Keith Haring.

Centuries-old chapel home to a relic said to be Christ's Crown of Thorns & a 17th-century fresco.

👍👍 Faccio questa recensione diversamente dalle altre, questo è un luogo del cuore. Antica e storica chiesa di Pisa la chiesa di San Francesco, purtroppo chiusa da qualche anno. Questa recensione nasce con il desiderio che se in tanti leggete si possa fare qualcosa per farla riaprire.

Built in the early 12th century, this Romanesque church features some notable medieval frescoes.

😐 Posto ameno, non sempre aperto. Incuriosito dalla salita ripida e corta (punte del 26%), mi sono avventurato. Molto belli gli scorci sulla cava. Affascinante la vista che si gode dall'alto. Posto isolato che porta alla meditazione. La strada non è ben asfaltata.