The Church of San Donnino has a plain front with a stone Monogram of Christ, a loggia with three arches and a quadrangular bell tower on the left completed by a spire. The outer stone portals - two of these with gables - are original of the sixteenth century, on the side of the parsonage a coat of arms by Veracini of 1740. Taken out from the Text Campi Bisenzio by Massimo Biagioni
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The church of San Donnino results in a legacy of the year 852 from Don Donneziano to the Roman Curia, intended to be an accommodation for the Papal Legates. It had already been a Monastery from the ninth century, then, in 1046, it passed to the Florentine Period, submitted to the plover of San Giuliano in Settimo and later of Brozzi. It was property of the Mazzinghi (showed by the engravings on the portals of the church), who rebuilt the church submitted to the Vatican. It became priorate in 1596. Turned into a parsonage, it is then rebuilt in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries and in particular in 1635, with the extension of richly adorned altars. Rehandled deeply in 1938, with the destruction of the apse and choirstalls, it was restored after the damages of the flood of 1966. Inside there are a polyptych of the Florentine school of the fourteenth century, six altars, of the first half of the nineteenth century, put at the walls, where, in one of them, is kept a wooden sculpted and painted crucifix of the seventeenth century, a sixteenth-century kneeling-stool, two remains of stone sculpted balustrade of 1740, that form the central altar. Valuable the almoner of the end of the sixteenth century and a memorial tablet, that reminds the consecration of the church on 14th July 1596 under the Bishop Alessandro Medici, who ordered the Priorate.
Taken out from the Text: Campi Bisenzio by Massimo Biagioni