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 Via San Matteo - San Gimignano, Italy Posted by:  razalas
N 43° 28.196 E 011° 02.465
32T E 665093 N 4815025
The Via San Matteo is one of the most important streets of the city of San Gimignano.
Waymark Code: WMM9Y2
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 08/19/2014
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Translated from the Wikipedia entry: ( visit link) quote:
Via San Matteo is one of the most characteristic and important street of the historical center of San Gimignano , north-south axis along which ran the Via Francigena . It goes from Piazza del Duomo to the Porta San Matteo .
Along the way it formed a district simultaneously with that of Via San Giovanni , which was included in the new walls of the thirteenth century. The buildings that surround it are largely in the forms thirteenth century, with a remarkably coherent sequence of medieval structures.
Starting from Piazza del Duomo meet on the left side of the twin towers of the Salvucci , then the tower of reeds . Follows the double arch of the Chancellery , the ancient city gate of the first circle of walls, followed on the right by the Palace of the Chancellery or Marsili, built between the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century and recognizable by the three arched doorways and the two mullioned windows with trefoil arches.
A little further on, on the right, is the ancient church of San Bartolo , which was once dedicated to St. Matthew, and which gave its name to the street.
The tower-house Pesciolini has an architecture in Florentine style, with two floors of mullioned windows, and is situated in front of the Palazzo Mori. Later you will find the Casa Baccinelli and a thirteenth-century tower severed. Shortly after you meet the arch of the alley and the building of Diacceto Larini, with two mullioned windows on the first floor; Also the alley of St. Matthew is framed by an archway. In the next section you will encounter Francerdelli house, with rusticated first floor (XV century), the house Pecori and, in the corner of the alley with the Virgin, the Palazzo Tinacci , consists of two buildings side by side. Before the Porta San Matteo ( 1262 ) there is still the palace Bonmaccorsi Vichi, which contains frescoes by Bernardino Poccetti inside.
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