Tavarnelle Val di Pesa is a village () in Barberino Tavarnelle in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany. Before 2019 it was a municipality (). It is about south of Florence.
Sights
The main attraction of the territory of Tavarnelle is the Badia di Passignano (Abbey of Passignano), a monastery existing from the High Middle Ages.
Other sights include:
- Church of Santa Lucia al Borghetto, part of a Franciscan monastery known from 1260. The church is an example of Gothic architecture.
- Gothic church of Madonna della Neve, with 14th-15th-century frescoes.
- Church of Santa Maria del Carmine al Morrocco (15th century)
- Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie a Pietracupa, founded in 1596, with a Madonna image frescoed by Paolo Schiavo.
- Pieve of San Pietro in Bossolo, a Romanesque church known from 990, housing works from Roman, Byzantine and Florentine schools.
- Villa di Spoiano, renaissance villa between Tavarnelle Val di Pesa and Barberino Val d'Elsa
- Villa di Poggio Petroio, outside the town.
- The pieve of San Donato in Poggio (12th century), in Romanesque style, with a basilica plan with a nave and two aisles and three apses. It houses a baptism shell by Giovanni della Robbia (1513) and a triptych by Giovanni del Biondo (1375).
- Bridge over the Pesa River in the frazione of Sambuca.
Tignano is a fortified hamlet whose church of San Romolo houses a terracotta tabernacle by Giovanni della Robbia.
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