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Chiesa di Santa Maria, Panzano in Chianti

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Cosa rende speciale Chiesa di Santa Maria, Panzano in Chianti

Il campanile di Santa Maria fu costruito per spararci, non per suonarci: la chiesa si prese una delle torri perimetrali del castello medievale come campanile, e poi, nel rifacimento del 1890-1903 , crebbe in avanti fino a inglobarne una parte nella nuova facciata. Dentro c'è un Crocifisso in pioppo policromo attribuito a Jacopo Sansovino e datato 1510-1518 , accanto a un' Annunciazione della bottega di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio — entrambi già qui quando il vescovo di Fiesole visitò la parrocchia nel 1542 . L'attrito è che quasi tutto ciò in cui si entra è ottocentesco. Le cappelle laterali, la navata allungata e i due semicerchi absidali vengono tutti da quella campagna, e la chiesa romanica sotto si legge solo a frammenti. Il modo intelligente è passare prima dal camposanto vecchio. Da lì, guardando la fiancata sinistra , gli ampliamenti sono ben riconoscibili: si vede esattamente dove comincia l'Ottocento. Poi entrate per la cappella dell'Annunciazione, che è la parte che vale il viaggio.

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Quando andare

Il 15 agosto, se volete una certezza. Santa Maria Assunta è la titolare e la patrona di Panzano, e la festa è l'unico giorno in cui la chiesa è inequivocabilmente in uso.

Altrimenti la domenica mattina. Nessun orario di messa è pubblicato da nessuna parte, quindi è una scommessa ragionevole e non una promessa.

Il terzo fine settimana di settembre le porta il paese addosso. Vino al Vino riempie Piazza Bucciarelli là sotto, e Panzano Alto è al massimo dell'affluenza.

Qualunque ora di luce per l'esterno. La fiancata sinistra dal camposanto vecchio è la vista che spiega l'edificio, ed è sempre disponibile.

L'inverno è tranquillo e quasi tutto chiuso, come ogni cosa a Panzano.

Verificato su Comune di Greve in Chianti, ottobre 2026.

Come arrivare ed entrare

Per questa chiesa non sono pubblicati orari, messe o ingressi dal Comune di Greve in Chianti né da altra fonte letta per questa scheda, e il comune non ne pubblica per alcun edificio di Panzano. È la parrocchiale del paese; l'assenza significa che nulla è a pagamento, non che la porta sia aperta.

Il momento più probabile per trovarla aperta è una domenica mattina, e quello certo è il 15 agosto, festa patronale di Santa Maria Assunta.

Guardate l'esterno dal camposanto vecchio. È lì che, secondo la documentazione, gli ampliamenti sono ben riconoscibili, sulla fiancata sinistra, e non costa nulla né richiede una porta.

Come arrivare. La chiesa sta in paese, appena sotto il castello di cui ha preso la torre. Panzano non ha stazione ferroviaria né servizio di autobus pubblicato; parcheggiate in Piazza Gastone Bucciarelli, giù a Campana, e salite a piedi.

L'amministrazione è a Greve. Comune di Greve in Chianti, Piazza Giacomo Matteotti 7/8, 50022 Greve in Chianti (FI), centralino 055 8545 1.

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Tipo: Chiesa, Luogo sacro, Luogo storico
Costruito: Origine romanica ricordata nelle decime del 1274-75; edificio attuale del 1890-1903
Stile architettonico: Rifacimento ottocentesco con cappelle laterali, che ingloba come campanile una torre del castello medievale

Dove si trova

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Visita responsabile

Questa è la parrocchiale di un paese di circa 1.161 persone. È in uso; non è un museo con una biglietteria.

Se c'è una funzione, non giratevi attorno a fotografare. Vale soprattutto il 15 agosto.

I dipinti e i due Crocifissi lignei sono fragili. Un Crocifisso è stato restaurato appena nel 1998 per recuperarne la policromia originale. Niente flash, niente mani, e non appoggiatevi alle balaustre.

Il camposanto vecchio è un camposanto. È stato dismesso dopo l'editto di Saint-Cloud, ma resta il luogo in cui questo paese ha seppellito i suoi morti, ed è da dentro che si ha la vista migliore della chiesa.

Parcheggiate a Campana e salite a piedi. Le strade attorno alla chiesa sono strette e residenziali.

Fonti e verifica Riguarda le affermazioni documentate di questa pagina.

Verificato su Wikipedia — The church of Santa Maria is a place of worship at Panzano in Chianti, a frazione of Greve in Chianti in the province of Florence, diocese of Fiesole, built between 1890 and 1903. It derived from the enlargement of a primitive Romanesque building recorded in the lists of the Rationes Decimarum per la Tuscia of 1274-75, itself probably enlarged in the fourteenth or fifteenth century with the use as a bell tower of one of the perimeter towers of the ancient medieval castle. At the end of the 1800s the church was contained between the two present great arches, without side chapels, and the bell tower remained detached from the church; between the two structures was the entrance to the cemetery, from which one reached the chapel of the Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata, believed to be the same seen today except for a direct access from the church, closed in the last restoration of the 1960s. The present aspect is due to the deep restructuring between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, with the creation of the side chapels and the prolongation of the central nave at the front, taking in with the new facade part of the bell tower and so closing the entrance to the old cemetery which, following the edict of Saint-Cloud issued by Napoleon in 1802 and promulgated for the Kingdom of Italy in 1806, had been decommissioned; the prolongation also affected the rear, creating the two present semicircles. These enlargements are clearly recognisable observing the left flank of the church from the old graveyard., Panzano in Chianti is a frazione of the comune of Greve in Chianti, in the province of Florence, with 1,161 inhabitants, standing at 510 metres; its patron is Santa Maria Assunta, kept on 15 August., A little outside the castle of Panzano stood the ancient church dedicated to Santa Maria, which at the end of the nineteenth century was replaced by the present one., The church of Santa Maria is a place of worship at Panzano in Chianti, a frazione of Greve in Chianti in the province of Florence, diocese of Fiesole, built between 1890 and 1903. It derived from the enlargement of a primitive Romanesque building recorded in the lists of the Rationes Decimarum per la Tuscia of 1274-75, itself probably enlarged in the fourteenth or fifteenth century with the use as a bell tower of one of the perimeter towers of the ancient medieval castle. At the end of the 1800s the church was contained between the two present great arches, without side chapels, and the bell tower remained detached from the church; between the two structures was the entrance to the cemetery, from which one reached the chapel of the Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata, believed to be the same seen today except for a direct access from the church, closed in the last restoration of the 1960s. The present aspect is due to the deep restructuring between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, with the creation of the side chapels and the prolongation of the central nave at the front, taking in with the new facade part of the bell tower and so closing the entrance to the old cemetery which, following the edict of Saint-Cloud issued by Napoleon in 1802 and promulgated for the Kingdom of Italy in 1806, had been decommissioned; the prolongation also affected the rear, creating the two present semicircles. These enlargements are clearly recognisable observing the left flank of the church from the old graveyard., The oldest furnishing of the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta at Panzano is a small fourteenth-century panel of the Madonna and Child referred to Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni, framed in the following century by a panel with saints executed by Bernardo Rosselli, now in the third chapel on the left. In the chapel of the Annunciation, entered from the right side of the church, are an Annunciation from the workshop of Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio executed around 1520 -- the tabula egregie dipincta cum immagine Anunciationis B. M. recalled by the bishop of Fiesole Braccio Martelli (1501-1560) in the pastoral visit of 1542 -- and a wooden Crucifix attributed to Jacopo Sansovino and dated between 1510 and 1518, also recalled by bishop Martelli as a pulcram immaginem Cristi Crucifixi, carved in polychrome poplar with a loincloth of linen cloth gessoed and painted blue with gilded decoration, of which Francesca Petrucci wrote after the restoration of 1998 that it had revealed a harmonious Renaissance structure heightened by the presence of the original polychromy of very fine pictorial quality. The same chapel holds an old gilded wooden ciborium in the form of a hexagonal tempietto of the late sixteenth century, the painted decorations of whose door panels are attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, together with old vestments embroidered in gold and silk and ancient reliquaries. Another important Crucifix attributed to a fifteenth-century Florentine sculptor stands on the altar of the first chapel on the left, also in poplar with a gessoed linen loincloth painted blue; the octagonal pietra serena font at the entrance on the right was made around 1730 by the then prior Giuseppe Maria Mammoli by order of the bishop of Fiesole Luigi Maria Strozzi; and in the first chapel on the right is a canvas of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi and Sant'Antonio di Padova painted by Pier Dandini in the mid-seventeenth century., The castle is the highest and oldest part of Panzano; a good part of the walls that girded the hill is still conserved, though on two sides they have been reduced in height while on the south-east side they are missing altogether. Corner towers also survive, one of which has been reused as the bell tower of the church of Santa Maria while another still keeps its apparato a sporgere. The internal structure is simple: from the single access gate, which may originally have had an antiporta, a single street leads to a small piazzetta onto which the cassero faces, the cassero being a tall tower rising higher than all the other buildings; beside the access gate is a building of obviously medieval character. For the accuracy of the wall facing and the form of the archivolts, all the buildings of the castle date its structures to the twelfth century., Panzano in Chianti is a frazione of the comune of Greve in Chianti, in the province of Florence, with 1,161 inhabitants, standing at 510 metres; its patron is Santa Maria Assunta, kept on 15 August., The church of Santa Maria is a place of worship at Panzano in Chianti, a frazione of Greve in Chianti in the province of Florence, diocese of Fiesole, built between 1890 and 1903. It derived from the enlargement of a primitive Romanesque building recorded in the lists of the Rationes Decimarum per la Tuscia of 1274-75, itself probably enlarged in the fourteenth or fifteenth century with the use as a bell tower of one of the perimeter towers of the ancient medieval castle. At the end of the 1800s the church was contained between the two present great arches, without side chapels, and the bell tower remained detached from the church; between the two structures was the entrance to the cemetery, from which one reached the chapel of the Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata, believed to be the same seen today except for a direct access from the church, closed in the last restoration of the 1960s. The present aspect is due to the deep restructuring between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, with the creation of the side chapels and the prolongation of the central nave at the front, taking in with the new facade part of the bell tower and so closing the entrance to the old cemetery which, following the edict of Saint-Cloud issued by Napoleon in 1802 and promulgated for the Kingdom of Italy in 1806, had been decommissioned; the prolongation also affected the rear, creating the two present semicircles. These enlargements are clearly recognisable observing the left flank of the church from the old graveyard., Panzano in Chianti is a frazione of the comune of Greve in Chianti, in the province of Florence, with 1,161 inhabitants, standing at 510 metres; its patron is Santa Maria Assunta, kept on 15 August., The oldest furnishing of the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta at Panzano is a small fourteenth-century panel of the Madonna and Child referred to Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni, framed in the following century by a panel with saints executed by Bernardo Rosselli, now in the third chapel on the left. In the chapel of the Annunciation, entered from the right side of the church, are an Annunciation from the workshop of Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio executed around 1520 -- the tabula egregie dipincta cum immagine Anunciationis B. M. recalled by the bishop of Fiesole Braccio Martelli (1501-1560) in the pastoral visit of 1542 -- and a wooden Crucifix attributed to Jacopo Sansovino and dated between 1510 and 1518, also recalled by bishop Martelli as a pulcram immaginem Cristi Crucifixi, carved in polychrome poplar with a loincloth of linen cloth gessoed and painted blue with gilded decoration, of which Francesca Petrucci wrote after the restoration of 1998 that it had revealed a harmonious Renaissance structure heightened by the presence of the original polychromy of very fine pictorial quality. The same chapel holds an old gilded wooden ciborium in the form of a hexagonal tempietto of the late sixteenth century, the painted decorations of whose door panels are attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, together with old vestments embroidered in gold and silk and ancient reliquaries. Another important Crucifix attributed to a fifteenth-century Florentine sculptor stands on the altar of the first chapel on the left, also in poplar with a gessoed linen loincloth painted blue; the octagonal pietra serena font at the entrance on the right was made around 1730 by the then prior Giuseppe Maria Mammoli by order of the bishop of Fiesole Luigi Maria Strozzi; and in the first chapel on the right is a canvas of Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi and Sant'Antonio di Padova painted by Pier Dandini in the mid-seventeenth century., The church of Santa Maria is a place of worship at Panzano in Chianti, a frazione of Greve in Chianti in the province of Florence, diocese of Fiesole, built between 1890 and 1903. It derived from the enlargement of a primitive Romanesque building recorded in the lists of the Rationes Decimarum per la Tuscia of 1274-75, itself probably enlarged in the fourteenth or fifteenth century with the use as a bell tower of one of the perimeter towers of the ancient medieval castle. At the end of the 1800s the church was contained between the two present great arches, without side chapels, and the bell tower remained detached from the church; between the two structures was the entrance to the cemetery, from which one reached the chapel of the Compagnia della Santissima Annunziata, believed to be the same seen today except for a direct access from the church, closed in the last restoration of the 1960s. The present aspect is due to the deep restructuring between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, with the creation of the side chapels and the prolongation of the central nave at the front, taking in with the new facade part of the bell tower and so closing the entrance to the old cemetery which, following the edict of Saint-Cloud issued by Napoleon in 1802 and promulgated for the Kingdom of Italy in 1806, had been decommissioned; the prolongation also affected the rear, creating the two present semicircles. These enlargements are clearly recognisable observing the left flank of the church from the old graveyard., The zone called Campana rises at the foot of the hill of Panzano at the crossing between the strada dei poggi, which winds along the watershed between the Greve and the Pesa joining San Casciano in Val di Pesa to Volpaia by way of the Castello delle Stinche, and the via Chiantigiana which leads towards Radda in Chianti and Castellina in Chianti; the Passo di Campana is at 480 m above sea level, and the name derives from the shape of piazza Gastone Bucciarelli, which seen from above resembles a bell. (ottobre 2026).
Verificato su Visit Tuscany (Toscana Promozione Turistica) — Visit Tuscany places Panzano in Chianti a few miles from Greve in Chianti, exactly halfway between Florence and Siena, with the Conca d'Oro at the foot of the village described as a mosaic of rows of vines, olive groves and woods; it records the Panzano Castle as documented since the 11th century, still retaining large sections of the medieval walls after the damage of the Battle of Montaperti in 1260, and the Church of Santa Maria in Panzano as rebuilt in the 19th century on an earlier medieval church, holding a fourteenth-century Madonna and Child and an Annunciation attributed to Michele Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio. It names the Parish Church of San Leolino as one of the oldest churches in Chianti., Panzano in Chianti holds the wine festival Vino al Vino on the third weekend in September at Piazza Bucciarelli, and a spring edition, Vino al Vino in Cantina, held in the cellars. (ottobre 2026).
Verificato su Comune di Greve in Chianti — The Comune di Greve in Chianti publishes no opening hours and no admission price for any building at Panzano in Chianti, and no transport timetable serving it., The Comune di Greve in Chianti publishes no opening hours and no admission price for any building at Panzano in Chianti, and no transport timetable serving it., Panzano in Chianti is a frazione administered by the Comune di Greve in Chianti, whose seat is at Piazza Giacomo Matteotti 7/8, 50022 Greve in Chianti (FI), with the switchboard 055 8545 1, and whose Polizia Municipale is at Via di Colognole 63/65, 50022 Greve in Chianti. There is no municipal office at Panzano itself. (ottobre 2026).

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Chiesa di Santa Maria, Panzano in Chianti

Cosa rende speciale Chiesa di Santa Maria, Panzano in Chianti

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Quanto costa

Come arrivare ed entrare

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