Church
of Sant'Agostino

The homonymous square on which the Church of Sant’Agostino was built is one of the oldest and most evocative places on the Piano (Colle Bassa). The construction of the church with the adjoining convent of the friars was begun in Gothic style in 1305 but underwent several renovations over time. Among the most important interventions was the sixteenth-century one by the architect Antonio da San Gallo the Elder, who enriched the central nave of the temple with round arches, barrel vaults and cross vaults. The arrangement of the church continued over time even if the façade was never completed, while the bell tower was built in 1900 based on a design by the artist from Colle Antonio Salvetti. Inside there are important works of art that a lover of art history cannot miss. At the entrance, in the right aisle, there are valuable works among which the Baroque altar of the Cini family with the gilded wooden aedicule, where a copy of the Volto Santo by the Florentine painter Carlo Dolci. In this chapel there is also the table with the Madonna and Child by the Sienese painter Taddeo di Bartolo, originally part of a triptych then dismembered. The Bardi altar is singular with the aedicule in pietra serena which preserves the painting by Giovan Battista Pozzo on the Martyrdom of Saint Catherine. In the right transept there is the Bertini chapel with a domed roof covered in marble with marble coats of arms and busts. Covered with barrel vaults, the apse of the church houses the wooden choir in the presbytery and the high altar is flanked by two marble tombstones with inscriptions, one of which commemorates the consecration of the building on 23 October 1580. In the left aisle, on the other hand, you can see the marble altar of the Bolognini family attributed to Baccio da Montelupo, that of the Sabolini family embellished with eighteenth-century stuccoes and the altar of the Albertani family with a wooden structure, where a valuable canvas of Saints by Giovan Battista Paggi. In addition to the precious works present, in the left aisle there are polychrome wooden statues, crucifixes, frescoes and the stone baptismal font by Antonio Salvetti.