The historical centre

On the Bargagli public square is the income to the Church of Saint Francisco.
The origin of this church goes back to first of XVI the century; you the Franciscans who had on the near necks the monastery of S. Bartolomeo in Solaia, founded from S. settled down themselves then Francisco.
The Cloister attests the fourteenth century origin, not only for some gothic elements, but also for one given it specifies recorded in capital (1341) and the rests of one fresco representing fourteenth century an Angel.
In 1462 Devout II he transferred the church of the Conventuali to Observing, which could not bear the floor strecon of grave slabs, they made it to cover and to rise more in order than a meter.
In such way the door was found halved and been necessary the construction of one new facade, that that happened in the 1480 for order of the Archbishop of Siena that was then Pope Pio III.
In the triple partition of the surface, extended in the eardrum that has in the center the Piccolomini coat of arms, in the lines of the portal this construction seems to re-echo in shapes simplified and discharged the spirit of the Rossellino.
The beautiful Bell tower also was rifared that age.
The church after several vicissitudini has been restored. To the inside, to a single one aisle with ceiling to trusses, is a remarkable work: the Triptych represents the Madonna with the Child between S. Giovanni Batiste and S. Giovanni Evangelista, in the cuspid the Annunciation, operates of Jacopo di Mino of the Furrier, of which news between the 1344 is had and the 1389, senese painter who gives an original roughness reached to one firm nobility of shapes.

From Piazza Bargagli it is gone up in Public square of the Town hall.
On the left the Communal Palace, whose fourteenth century origins appear on the flank of the construction.
To right, for Rome street, beautiful Palazzo Piccolomini of XVI the century, than although much rearrange, denunciation still, above all to the inside, its beautiful rinascimentale structure.
Continuing reaches itself the church of S.Martino in Hole.
The ancient church was destroyed in the 1844 and later on reconstructed one.
To the inside the Madonna with the Child of Jacopo di Mino of the Furrier, perhaps its beautifulr work.
The Announced one is of the Beccafumi, operates much remarkable in the fluid and movement disposition of the images, set up on a wide and solemn architectonic background that s' it opens to the center of an evocative landscape.

Returned in Public square for Garibaldi Course, it is reached the Church of Saint Lorenzo.
Its origins go back to XIII the century, as they attest to some remainders in the passage between the Church and the Sacrestia.
The inside was modified to the times of the Bishop Rags of Sluices, during XVIII the century, was left the big windows along the sidewalls, but they were sluices the two big windows to sides of the arms of the cross; the church was turned and the walls were strengthened with the construction of the lateral nails head.
Behind the altar it is the wooden chorus, whose dedicatory registration was dictated from the grandsons of Devout III, unfortunately are little visible the inlays of the chorus in how much in the past centuries had been entire painted.
In the Sacrestia the some beautiful pieces of silvervare of the ' 600 and rich and ancient sacred parameters are visible.

On piazzetta before the church there is Palazzo Cennini, whose original construction goes back to XV the century, but was transformed in XVIII the restored century and of recent.
Continuing for the way rooms to the Castle, solid fortress and stony, enough very conserved that it goes back to XIII the century.

(This extract is taken from the Guide to Chianciano Terme and its outskirts by Mrs. S. Orienti and G. Vagaggini Poppi)