S. Ilario a Colombaia

Sant'Ilario a Colombaia is a Roman Catholic parish church just outside the Porta Romana, in Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy. Documentation of an oratory at the site exists as early as 1072. Pilgrims would have passed by this site on the road to Rome. By the 14th century the oratory was enlarged and transformed into a church dedicated to Saint Hilary, a bishop of Poitiers who died in the fourth century. Previously, it was called Sant'Ilario alle fonti due to a spring previously found nearby. The name of Colombaia for the neighborhood was already present in ancient documents. The church came under the patronage of noble Florentine families, among them the Adimari, Ghiberti, Donati, and Quaratesi. In 1325, it was nearly razed by the condottiero Castruccio Castracani, and a reconstruction was completed by 1457. Numerous other refurbishments have occurred over the centuries.

Text from Wikipedia (en), article "Sant'Ilario a Colombaia", by Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened and cleaned