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Abetone Gravity Park

Un riferimento per i downhiller dell'Italia centrale, con un mix unico di calda ospitalità e stile toscano, dotato di un'officina e un noleggio bici con le ultime novità.

Abetone Gravity Park is one of the largest bike parks in Italy, with a modern cable car taking you to a height of 700 metres in only 7 minutes. It offers you 5 different plotted courses: a descent course suitable for competitions of any kind, and free-ride and enduro tracks to suit all technical and physical levels. The tracks are from 4 - 6 km long. The cross-country loops or…

Abetone Cutigliano

Doganaccia 2000

On the Croce Arcana slopes, in the town of Abetone Cutigliano, Doganaccia 2000 offers you enjoyable outdoor activities all the year round in the splendid setting of the Pistoia Mountains.

In winter Doganaccia is an important skiing resort in the Central Apennines, with 15 km of slopes for skiing and snowboarding, an area for little sleds and sledges, as well as various tracks which wind through beech forests and wide open spaces where you can practice skiing, go for walks with snow shoes, or go snow kiting and paragliding. Moreover, it is proud to have the largest area of floodlit…

Abetone Cutigliano

SpiderPark Adventure Park

Seven routes at varying heights so as to be suitable for all ages, always in total safety, in the Municipality of Marliana in the Pistoia Mountains.

The Spiderpark Adventure Park stands in a lovely beech tree wood, a few minutes from the village of Prunetta. Carefully integrated with these majestic plants- some more than 35 metres high - the park can offer 3, one-metre-high, paths for children between 3 and 8-9 years old, and 4 paths of varying difficulty and heights, for both kids and adults. To put yourself to the test, you can try rock…

Marliana

Porrettana Railway

For more than 150 years the Porrettana Railway track has been an integral part of the Pistoia Mountains

The first railway line to cross the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine ridge and connect Pistoia to Bologna, this great feat of engineering – with 47 tunnels and 35 bridges and viaducts – was designed by the Frenchman Jean Louis Protche. Officially inaugurated by Vittorio Emanuele II on 2 November 1864, the Central Italy Railway quickly became one of the most important railway junctions in Italy, with up to 80 trains a day passing…

Historic Steam Engines Deposit

The Historic Steam Engines Deposit is one of the oldest railway infrastructures in Italy and is also an important centre for the Fondazione FS Italiane for the repairing of steam engines.

The Historic Steam Engines Deposit in Pistoia is one of the oldest and most important railway infrastructures in Italy. It stands near Pistoia's railway station and is close to the town's historic centre. Over the centuries and right from its origins, it has always been a mechanic's workshop, which is now open to the public. It actually first opened in 1864, at the same time as the opening of the…

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Church of Sant’Andrea

The church features a magnificent pulpit, with white marble reliefs and porphyry columns, and two painted wooden crucifixes, which are attributed to the work of Giovanni Pisano.

While its foundation dates back to the 8th century, the Church of Sant'Andrea owes its current appearance to the work carried out between the 12th and 13th-centuries. The façade is likely the work of Gruamonte and Adeodato, as is the architrave dating back to 1166, which boasts a depiction of the biblical Three Kings, the first pilgrims in Christian history. Inside, the church features a magnificent pulpit and two painted…

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Cathedral of San Zeno

The Cathedral houses the silver altar, one of the most prominent works of Italian and European Gothic goldsmithery, and a relic of Saint James.

The Saint Zeno Cathedral is one of the buildings which embellish the Piazza del Duomo. The first time we hear about its existence is in 923 A.D. Its present-day aspect is the result of various modifications that have taken place over the years during the 12th, 14th, and 15th centuries. At the end of the 16th century, its gallery was modified to become what we can see today. Inside the cathedral,…

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Church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas

The church was originally built outside the town walls, hence the name Fuorcivitas, meaning “outside the city”.

The church of San Giovanni fuorcivitas assumed its present aspect between the 12th and 14th centuries. The structure’s white and green façade represents one of the greatest achievements of Pistoia’s Romanesque architectural heritage. Inside, the church boasts a magnificent pulpit by Fra Guglielmo da Pisa (1270), as well as a glazed earthenware depiction of the Visitation, which is attributed to the work of Luca Della Robbia. The interior also preserves works of art and other evidence…

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Church of San Francesco

The monasterial complex of the Church of San Francesco is a wonderful work of architecture dating back to the 13th century.

Until Sunday, September 22, open only in the morning. During the mid-13th century, the Friars Minor settled in the Church of Santa Maria al Prato. The current complex is the result of expansion work, which began in 1289 and lasted up until the early years of the 18th century. Inside, the great nave boasts an imposing Tuscan style wooden ceiling, which is reminiscent of the great Florentine churches. Among the…

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Church of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola (Spirito Santo)

The church houses the high altar, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and the great altarpiece, by Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, depicting the Apparizione di Cristo a Sant’Ignazio.

While the construction of the Jesuit College began in 1641, and work on the Church of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola began in 1647, the latter was subsequently consecrated to the Spirito Santo in 1774 and represented a “new” building for Pistoia with respect to other works that were being carried out on buildings of medieval origins. The large hall contains Roman Baroque decorative elements. Lodovico Gemignani, one of the artists who…

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Basilica of the Madonna dell’Umiltà

Its imposing dome, designed by Giorgio Vasari, went on to become one of the Pistoia’s most prominent symbols.

Work upon the Basilica della Madonna dell'Umiltà began in 1495 and was completed in 1568. It included the intervention of Giorgio Vasari, who designed its imposing dome, which went on to become one of the city’s most prominent architectural and religious symbols. It was built in honour of the image of the Madonna and Child from the ancient church of Santa Maria Forisportam, which is said to have exuded a…

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Church of San Leone

A true jewel of 18th century Pistoia art, brought back to its original glory by a recent restoration. It now holds temporary exhibitions.

The Church of San Leone goes back to the 14th century, but it is mainly thanks to alterations made in the 18th century, by the Pistoia architect, Raffaello Ulivi, that it has become one of the most important buildings of 18th century art and architecture in Pistoia. The walls, ceiling, and the domed apse are covered with pictorial decorations realized by the most important artists of 18th century culture, such…

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Former Church of the Tau

The church is dedicated to Sant’Antonio Abate who is usually depicted holding a T (tau)-shaped walking stick and a little pig at his feet.

The convent and church of Sant’Antonio Abate or of the Tau (from the Greek letter T: made in blue enamel which believers used to wear sown into their tunics or cloaks, bringing to mind the top of the stick which the saint often leant on), was founded in the middle of the 14th century by the friar Fra Giovanni Guidotti in the parish of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas in Pistoia. The church is dedicated to…

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Church of San Jacopo in Castellare

The church is one of the oldest in Pistoia, and the frescoes it preserves allow visitors to admire the evolution of local painting between the 13th and 14th centuries.

Located in the heart of the historic center, San Jacopo in Castellare is one of the oldest churches in Pistoia, and although it was first documented in 1131, it likely existed already in the early medieval period. The building stands adjacent to the first city walls in the area known as “castellare” due to the presence of military fortifications dating back to the 10th century, from which it derives its…

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Museum of the Spedale del Ceppo

A specific section is dedicated to the Della Robbia Frieze in polychrome glazed terracotta, set on the external loggia

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Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi

Housed in the historical bishop’s seat, the museums display a substantial part of the city of Pistoia’s art. One of the Fondazione Pistoia Musei’s centerpieces, this palace is dedicated to ancient and modern art.

The Antico Palazzo dei Vescovi, located in Piazza del Duomo in Pistoia, was first documented in 1091. Initially built as a fortified residence, in the 12th century it began to look more like a stately home. Among its many features, the building houses the sacristy of San Jacopo, built between 1163 and 1170, where Vanni Fucci committed the theft described by Dante in Canto 24 of Inferno. By the 16th…

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