Basilica San Francesco

In the centre of Arezzo, in the heart of Tuscany, turnig through a cross of the main street, you can arrive in Piazza San Francesco and admire the San Francesco’s Basilica… this is the first step to know Piero della Francesca.
Historically this Basilica is the second franciscan’s church in the tuscany city of Arezzo and it was constructed later on the destruction of the first one, due the devastations of mercenary’s army.
Inside this church of Arezzo it was also conserved the Maestà of Guido da Siena before it became a museum piece. San Francesco’s Basilica is located in the homonym square; it has a rustical aspect because of absence of money for the wall face, so in the XIV century one devoted woman gave a donation for start the works they were too little and the works, when the baseboard was been completed, immediately finished. However the baseboard still now remains like a symbol of good will. Behind the rural aspect the Basilica of Arezzo conserves as well as the Maria Maddalena one of the most important masterpiece of all the tuscan renaissance painting. During your tuscany holiday you don’t have to miss to visit the cycle of wall paintings La leggenda della Vera Croce by Piero della Francesca that decorates Bacci chapel with new splendour thanks to recent restore intervents and it describes 3 type of scene: high part open-scene, centre part court-scene, low part battle-scene. Talking about Piero della Francesca you can find also him paintings out of Tuscany in Sansepolcro and Monterchi: the Polittico della Misericordia, the Resurrezione and the extraordinary wall painting Madonna del Parto. So sensations and colors of Arezzo’s land come back to life in the works of Piero della Francesca and only in this places they can be fully understood… an holiday in tuscany is surely for you!

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