Pieve di Santa Maria a Chianni

Located a short distance from the centre of Gambassi, the parish church of Santa Maria a Chianni is a good example of a Romanesque religious building, one of the most important in the Valdelsa area. In its architecture, there are similarities with the Cathedral of Volterra. Placed on the hills north-east of Gambassi Terme, left of the Elsa river, it stood at an important road junction, there where the ancient "northern" Via Volterrana intersected with the original Via Francigena or Romea.

Text from FeelFlorence (en), the official tourism portal of the Comune di Firenze and the Citta Metropolitana di Firenze; shortened