Greve in Chianti attractions

Greve's sights divide into the square, the hill above it, and a very large rural comune behind both.

In the town. Piazza Matteotti itself — an elongated triangle under porticoes, with Romeo Pazzini's statue of Giovanni da Verrazzano at the centre and the Propositura di Santa Croce at one vertex, holding a 14th-century Madonna and Child fresco, a Bicci di Lorenzo triptych and a ciborium attributed to Santi Buglioni. Two museums: the Museo di San Francesco, opened 7 September 2002 in the former convent, with the Compianto sul Cristo morto in polychrome terracotta from the workshop of Baccio da Montelupo, framed in glazed terracotta of 1515–1520, and paintings by Jacopo Vignali upstairs; and the Museo del vino, about 800 square metres in the old cellars.

Fifteen minutes uphill. Montefioralle — the castle the town was once a dependency of — a near-circular walled borgo with paved streets, the church of Santo Stefano (a late-13th-century Florentine Madonna and Child; a 15th-century Trinity and Saints attributed to the Maestro dell'Epifania di Fiesole), and a house said to have belonged to Amerigo Vespucci. Just outside it, the Pieve di San Cresci, Romanesque, with a 15th-century portico.

Across the comune. The castles of Uzzano, Canonica, Mugnana and Verrazzano — the last about 2 km from the centre on a hill at 348 m; Santa Lucia a Barbiano with its castle, a stronghold in the Florence–Siena wars; the viewpoint at Convertoie; and a dense scatter of pievi, several documented before the year 1000.

Note on Panzano. Panzano in Chianti is a frazione of this comune and has its own page on this site; its Pieve di San Leolino is treated there.