Orange Flag (Bandiera Arancione) is a trademark of the association Touring Club Italiano awarded to small villages and communities in direction: Siena the Italian inland that stand out for high quality of hospitality and San Gimignano excellence in accommodation services. Madonna del Carmine Church map of Peccioli is Orange Flag MUCIPALITY OF PECCIOLI PECCIOLI ENG Tourist Information Office Praetorian Palace Museum via Don Minzoni Collection of Russian Icons “F. Bigazzi” Collection of wooden and bronze icons “Belvedere S.p.A.” Public Library Amphitheater Fonte Mazzola Piazza Collection of Engravings and Litographies “Donazione Vito Merlini” Fonte Mazzola San Verano’s Church and Bell tower of “Bellincioni” S. Bartolo La Castellaccia (panoramic garden) Peccioliper Foundation Caffè Haus Town hall 5 6 Countryside of “Le Serre” via della Resistenza Piazza via Bastioni del Carmine 9 7 3 2 direction: Fabbrica via Carraia Montelopio 1 8 Montecchio via Corbiano via 11 2 2 Monsavino 10 via Roma Piazza Monsavino viale Mazzini 9 Piazza P.tta D. Da Peccioli 12 via Carraia del Popolo Piazza 4 Caffè Haus 5 3 8 via Monsavino 13 7 6 5 via Marconi via 1 3 via del Giardino 1 Piazza via Matteotti 4 C. Battisti 4 via G. Borgherucci via G. Borgherucci via S. Pellico viale Mazzini Parco della Rimembranza trav. via di Greta P.tta Scarselli viale Garibaldi viale Risorgimento viale Mazzini via dei Cappuccini via G. Sabatini viale Cavour direction: Pontedera Multifunctional Centre Local Police FI-PI-LI Expressway Belvedere S.p.A. Sport Facilities and Cycling Track direction: Volterra Public Library Municipality of Peccioli...(+39) 0587/67.261 Post office....................(+39) 0587/63.54.37 Free Parking Local Police Museums Contemporary Art Fonte Mazzola Belvedere S.p.A..........(+39) 0587/67.20.72 Civil Protection Department (24h.)............. Multilevel Car Park Panoramic Point Free WIFI area 1 Praetorian Palace Museum Foundation Peccioliper.......(+39) 0587/67.21.58 ....................................(+39) 0587/73.44.56 Monuments and historical palaces Tourist Information Office...(+39) 0587/93.64.23 Emergency medical service (USL 5 La Rosa) ....... Lift Children Playground Tourist Information Office 2 Tourist Information Office Underground car park.....(+39)0587/63.52.82 .........................................(+39) 0587/27.38 Details about contemporary art, monu- Public Toilet Misericordia of Peccioli...(+39) 0587/63.51.32 ATM Misericordia of Peccioli Public Services: (inside the underground car park) 3 Archaeological Museum ments and historical palaces are shown Local Police.................(+39) 0587/67.24.67 Legend in the backpage of this map and are Public Library..............(+39) 0587/67.21.22 Post Office Public Fountain Carabinieri Station Carabinieri of Peccioli....(+39) 0587/63.50.18 Sightseeings 4 Museum of Sacred Art marked by lightblue or violet color. Sport Facilities.............(+39) 0587/67.02.44 Useful numbers numbers Useful Pharmacy of Peccioli....(+39) 0578/63.50.15 Quality Swimming Pool............(+39) 0587/67.02.44 Pharmacy Filtered Water 5 Bell Tower Pharmacy of Fabbrica...(+39) 0587/69.72.22 2020 02 05 Mappa Peccioli ING.indd 1 11/02/20 09:54 The hamlet of Peccioli ternal courtyards of palaces as a place for the of the place in the history of Peccioli. It is a PRAETORIAN PALACE MUSEUM SACRED ART MUSEUM community to meet and sit; the second is Fon- clear reference to the facilities for worship in The old Praetorian Palace, dating back to the Medieval time, hosts three Collections: eccioli is an old hilltop village in the Era te 3 (1995), in a location once used as a pri- the ancient world, usually set in the highest ces”. In addition there is a dossal PValley, whose name probably refers to son, where thirteen cabinets of glass display point of a town. At the bottom of the stairca- with St. Nicholas and stories of his the archaic “picea”, in Italian “peccio” (En- traditional demijohns or damigianas which se, the same artist createdFontana 5 , which life dating back to the third quarter glish “spruce”, “wild pine tree”). It arose and can be found in all Tuscan cellars. Walking on calls to mind the presence of a fountain for pu- of 13th century, a wooden crucifix grew around a castle that, from a high van- along Via Matteotti, at number 53, you can rification near a sanctuary. datable to the fourth decade of 14th tage point, overlooked a wide stretch of the see the Palace Nieri – Nocchi 3 , residence Going on along via Corbiano and via dei Ba- century, a Holy Conversation by land crossed by the Era river, which was the of landowners from Pisa and Florence since stioni, you will see another work made in 1992 Neri di Bicci dating to 1463 and an theatre of fierce disputes between Florence, the 18th century, including the families Or- by Messina. It is a brick headstone 6 with Assumption with Angels and Saints Pisa and Volterra. The outline of the town, sini and Pescatori. A bit further on there is a an opening that is crossed by the sunlight by Giovanni Bilivert, dated 1628. made unique by the original bell tower, is at sunset. Further on it is possible to see a very well preserved stretch of the medieval Address: included in a landscape of Tuscan countrysi- brick walls 4 , which is probably where the Cross 9 with the Symbols of the Passion of The Museum of Sacred Art is hou- Pieve di San Verano, Peccioli de with olive groves, vineyards and pleasant Pisan Gates once were, namely one of the Christ, an attestation of ancient forms of popu- COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN ICONS COLLECTION OF ENGRAVINGS sed inside the Romanesque Pieve Mob. +39 349 6296255 hills. The land is rich in historic and artistic two main access ways to the old town. The lar devotion. A further reference to the tradi- “F. BIGAZZI” AND LITHOGRAPHS di San Verano, inside the Assump- Opening Hours: 4 landmarks and it is dotted with characteristic walls continued most probably along the tions of rural world isBastone 7 by Federico COLLECTION OF WOODEN AND “VITO MERLINI DONATION” tion Chapel, built in 1580 to house Saturdays 10 a.m. – 13 a.m. BRONZE ICONS “BELVEDERE S.P.A.” villages such as Cedri, Fabbrica, Ghizzano, Lib- existing via Borgherucci, via Del Giardino, via De Leonardis, a work of 1996. At the crossing The Collection of Engravings and the homonymous fraternity. In the Sundays and Festivities 3 p.m. – 6 p.m. A walk in Peccioli... A walk The Museum of Russian Icons biano, Legoli, Montecchio and Montelopio. Monsavino and on the opposite side along between via Bastioni and via Carraia you find Lithographs – Vito Merlini Do- museum you can admire a Madon- F. Bigazzi was opened in 2000 as The museum is closed on January 1st, May 1st, via dei Bastioni and via Corbiano, ending “Colonna che scende” 8 (1992), a sculpture nation includes 279 sheets: en- na with Child dating back to the August 15th, December 25th, and in the after- the result of an agreement betwe- Commented route onto via del Carmine. by Hidetoshi Nagasawa which is inserted into gravings, lithographs, woodcuts first half of 13th century. The image noons of December 24th and December 31st. en the Municipality of Peccioli e suggest you park in the multilevel car The Church of Madonna del Carmine 5 , the medieval wall structure. and screen printings, collected is also called “Our Lady of the Gra- Free admission and the collector Francesco Bi- park, take the lift to level 6 and visit the overlooking Piazza del Carmine, was built Going down left along via Carraia, at number 9 by Vito Merlini, a physician from W The Museum Complex gazzi, a long time reporter from historical centre of Peccioli, which is rich in around the mid 17th century, as the date there is a palace which belonged to the noble Peccioli, who donated them to BELL TOWER Moscow for Italian newspapers medieval and contemporary works of art, fol- 1644 on the wooden leaves of the portal family Almeni from Florence and then to the the Municipality of the town in and magazines. The Bigazzi Col- lowing our suggested route. Exiting the Mul- suggests. Inside you will find a fifteenth-cen- family Dufour Berte 10 , important landowners 2006. They include artworks mo- nesque structure. Completed in lection includes Russian icons da- tilevel car park, almost immediately you can tury fresco, which represents the Madonna and wine producers. The palace is on three stly concerning Figurative Art, 1898 and 42m high, it is covered by ting back to 18th – beginning of admire the work “Fessura e Contravvento II” on Throne with the Child, St. Joseph and St. floors and the basements house a cellar with Informal Art and Metaphysics. dark bush hammered stones. From by Federico1 De Leonardis, which represents Verano. During the second half of 17th cen- casks. On the main door are the initials of the fa- 20th century. Another permanent there you can experience a wonder- both the wind gusts that lash the hill and the ef- tury a canvas with a central rectangular ope- mily in wrought iron. On the façade is a rectan- collection, available since 2007, is ful panoramic view. fects of time by means of cement slabs and a deep ning was superimposed onto the fresco. This gular stone plate with the writing “Almeni” owned by Belvedere S.p.A. It in- Opening Hours: It is possible to climb the bell tower Tuesdays 9 am – 1 pm crack in the structure of the car park. Going on to canvas today is preserved at the Museum of next to the coats of arms of the familiy. Going cludes two main sections: dated during the opening hours of the Wednesdays 3 pm – 7 pm back up into town you pass through the Vol- and/or signed icons from 18th to Praetorian Palacce Museum.