Churches

Cappella di San Galgano - Palazzo Chigi Saracini

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In the inner courtyard, where he was a well placed from the ancient Monastery Via Sperandie Count Chigi built a chapel dedicated to San Galgano, where they were placed important works acquired during the suppression of convents:
- The Crucifixion altar from the Oratory of St. Catherine at the Paradiso, - The frescoes and stucco and gilded wooden statues from the Oratory of St. John the Baptist's death.

At the entrance was placed a colossal statue of Pope Paul V Fulvio Signorini from the Duomo.

Under the porch and were willing nell'anticappella numerous busts representing the illustrious ancestors of heterogeneous origin, among which enjoyed particular fame the effigy of Abbot believed Feo Saracens engraved on a tombstone at the end of the fifteenth century who had recovered from Galgano Abbey Island .In the inner courtyard, where he was a well placed from the ancient Monastery Via Sperandie Count Chigi built a chapel dedicated to San Galgano, where they were placed important works acquired during the suppression of convents:
- The Crucifixion altar from the Oratory of St. Catherine at the Paradiso, - The frescoes and stucco and gilded wooden statues from the Oratory of St. John the Baptist's death.

At the entrance was placed a colossal statue of Pope Paul V Fulvio Signorini from the Duomo.

Under the porch and were willing nell'anticappella numerous busts representing the illustrious ancestors of heterogeneous origin, among which enjoyed particular fame the effigy of Abbot believed Feo Saracens engraved on a tombstone at the end of the fifteenth century who had recovered from Galgano Abbey Island .

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