The Saint Mary of Pieve Church in Arezzo

The church was built between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

The Romanic facade of the church shows three arches and it is characterized by a rich decoration of sculptures.

The high part of the facade is formed by three orders of columns based on different materials.

In 1330 was ended the belfry characterized by windows with two spans, 59 metres high, known as Tower of one hundred hols.

The apse presents an order of arches surmounted by two overlapped cavities.

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The interior of the church has three aisles divided by majestic columns. Inside the crypt, built during the nineteenth-century restoring works, is visible the golden silver bust realized in 1346 and containing Saint Donato’s holy relics, protector of Arezzo.

On the major altar it is possible to admire a polyptych painted in 1320 by Pietro Lorenzetti (1280-1348) to the bishop Guido Tarlati’s order.

In the presbitery, the oldest part of the church, there are a Romanic marble capital belonging to the Imperial Age and a fourteenth-century fresco.