| Florentine broom | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Tuscany | |
| Altitude | 56 m a.s.l. | |
| Inhabitants | 1.489 (2011) | |
| Prefix tel | 39 055 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 50055 | |
| Time zone | UTC 1 | |
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Florentine broom is a fraction of the municipality of Lastra a Signa in the province of Florence.
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Geographical notes
The hamlet runs along the Pesa stream, which marks the southern border with the municipality of Montespertoli.
Background
According to the Historical Geographical Dictionary of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, by E. Repetti, there was already an ancient hospital for pilgrims, located on the crossroads from the main road that ran along the right bank of the Pesa stream, with the one that climbed the hills of Romola. Expanded in the 60s of the last century, it is one of the largest hamlets of Lastra a Signa. The main church is the modern church of the Immaculate Conception in Ginestra Fiorentina, while the historic parish church of Santi Ippolito and Cassiano, consecrated in 1091, whose community was once under the control of the municipality of Montelupo Fiorentino.
How to orient yourself
Ginestra Fiorentina: full screen map.How to get
By car
To the west of the town there is the exit of the main road Florence-Pisa-Livorno.
How to get around
What see
- 1 Parish church of Saints Ippolito and Cassiano. The parish church, which dates back to the 11th century, has a commissa cross plan (T-cross) consisting of a single roofed nave, with a barrel-vaulted transept and ended with a semicircular apse. In the mid-fifteenth century it was enriched by a marble ciborium made by Mino da Fiesole but this together with some works in the transept were the only interventions that the church received so much so that in 1590 on the occasion of the apostolic visit made by the bishop of Florence Alessandro de 'Medici the church still featured the ancient Romanesque altar and a painted cross. Restored in 1967, the church is in a state of semi-neglect with the exception of the canonical complex which is now a hotel.
- 2 Church of the Immaculate Conception in Ginestra Fiorentina, Via Chiantigiana, 36, ☎ 39 055 871 3251.
- 3 Villa Corte of Poggio Le Topole, Via Chiantigiana, 343, ☎ 39 335 658 6612.
- Villa Borghese.
- Villa Florenzi Martorelli.
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