Borgo San Lorenzo

Tuscany, Italy

PERSONAGES WHAT TO EAT MUST-SEE PICTURES

PERSONAGES

Galileo Chini

He was an Italian painter and decorator (Florence 1873 - 1956). He was also a significant exponent of Italian Art Nouveau, attentive to European modernist experiences, with great versatility dedicated to ceramics, graphics and scenography. In 1897 he founded a workshop of decorative art that produced, in addition to ceramics, mosaics and stained glass. Among his great wall decorations (exhibitions, baths of Salsomaggiore, Montecatini, royal palace of Bangkok, etc.) we remember that of the hall of the dome of the Venice Biennale (1909; covered in 1928 and rediscovered in 1986).

Monsignor della Casa

Giovanni Della Casa, better known as Monsignor Della Casa (Borgo San Lorenzo, 28 June 1503 - Montepulciano, 14 November 1556), was an Italian Catholic intellectual, writer and archbishop, best known as the author of the manual of good manners (probably written after 1551 in Calvisano, but published posthumously in 1558), which had great success since its publication.

L’è come tra il mangiare e stare a vedere

It highlights the difference between substance and appearance.

WHAT TO EAT

Torta in balconata

The "Torta in Balconata per dodeze persone" was obtained from the "Libro di cucina del secolo XIV" published by Ludovico Frati in 1899, In which there is a particularly refined cuisine can be placed at the end of the '300. Its unusual name is due to the layers of pasta on which is laid nuts, nuts and almond milk.

Polenta gialla

This dish belongs to the tradition of poor and peasant families. For Mugello people, polenta is also linked to a tradition of freedom. In Borgo San Lorenzo the "Polentata delle Ceneri" is still celebrated, recalling the revolt of the Borghigiano people against the French invaders in 1799. After hunting down the French troops at the end of a very hard battle along the streets, the women began to cook large copper pots of polenta with which they fed those who had fought. Since then every Ash Wednesday that tradition is renewed and in Piazza Garibaldi polenta is distributed for free.

Tortello di patate

The tortelli di patate mugellani are a type of stuffed pasta usually of square shape, filled with boiled potatoes, parmesan and nutmeg.

MUST-SEE

Chini Museum

Villa Pecori Giraldi houses the Chini Museum where you can visit an important collection of works by the artist Galileo Chini, the main exponent of a family of artists who introduced the art nouveau style in Italy and the world. The noble rooms of the Villa also house the Chini Contemporary, a space dedicated to contemporary art. Also inside Villa Pecori Giraldi there is an interactive area specially designed for children - the Children’s Museum.

Pieve romanica di San Lorenzo

In the center is the Parish church, the largest of the Romanesque buildings in the Florentine countryside. The buiding has a bell tower of rare beauty, and houses a series of prestigious works of art dating from 1the 14th to the 21st centuries. The Pieve displays in the presbytery the Madonna on wood attributed to Giotto (the only work of the great artist native of Vicchio present in Mugello).

Fido Statue

Indeed, in the town center it is possible to admire the clock tower on the left of which you can recognize a fourteenth-century loggia; moreover, the Palazzo Pretorio, the current library and the monument to the faithful dog Fido, an example of a fidelity.