Sant'Alessandro, Volterra
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Sant'Alessandro | |
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Roman Catholic | |
Province | Pisa |
Location | |
Location | Volterra, Italy |
Geographic coordinates | 43°23′58″N 10°51′33″E / 43.3994°N 10.8592°E |
Architecture | |
Type | Church |
Style | Romanesque architecture |
Groundbreaking | 1120 |
Sant'Alessandro is a
Roman Catholic parish church located on Borgo Sant'Alessandro corner with Viale Cesare Battisti in Volterra, province of Pisa, region of Tuscany
, Italy. It is located outside the Porta d'Arco (Portal of the Arch), one of the seven gates in the walls of Volterra.
History and description
A church was initially consecrated here in 1120 by Pope Callixtus II, presumably at the site of a pagan temple. The structure is made from stone blocks and has a wooden beams sustaining the ceiling. In the facade is an oculus, and an awkward portico was added in the 16th-century. The sail-type bell tower above the apse was added in 1598
Inside is a painted cross, poorly conserved, dating to the 12th century is kept in the church; it putatively derives from the
Monastery of San Galgano in Chiusdino.[1] Two tablets depicting Saints Atinia and Greciniana, two of the few remaining parts of the altar made by Cosimo Daddi. A 15th-century-tabernacle is located on the right wall of the presbytery. It originally comes from the Santi Pietro e Paolo church in Coiano, in the municipality of Castelfiorentino
, Valdelsa, but is part of Volterra's diocese.
Sources
- ^ Guida di Volterra, Benedetto Sborgi, Tipografia Sborgi, 1903, page 136.