Books, video and music about Barberino Val d`Elsa

	Terra di Semifonte. Capolavori, tradizione e innovazione nl territorio di Barberino Val d'Elsa Author: Not available Publisher: Editoriale Tosca Date: 1990 Topic: Society
AA.VV. "Chiese medievali della Valdelsa. - 1 - Tra Firenze, Lucca e Volterra" Size: cm 21x30, 256 pages, 90 colour tables, 284 black and white illustrations, paper-back binding. ISBN: 88-86975-18-X Price: € 42,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 27,30. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero Starting from the outlet of the Elsa river into the Arno river, near the place - still mysterious - where the large "pieve" (parish) of San Genesio stood, in the territory of Lucca, the volume follows the route of the "via Francigena" and of the ancient medieval roads. Sixty-five buildings are fully described, being both complete structure or just simple Romanic rests. Among the churches that are still full intact we can find some of the most interesting monuments of the hilly part of Tuscany. Amonmg these we mention here the parishes of Cellole, Chianni, Sant'Appiano, Saint Lazzaro a Lucardo Castelfiorentino, Coiano and Monterappoli. There is also a reticulum of small churches that are, despite their dimensions, of great importance because of their Romanic onstructive and decorative final touches. The churches are made by stones or bricks and rich, sometimes, of symbols that miraculously are intact still now.
Author: M. Frati, "Chiese romaniche della campagna fiorentina. Pieve, abbazie e chiese rurali tra l'Arno e il Chianti" Size: cm 21x30, 256 pages, 126 colour tables, 191 black and white illustrations, paper-back binding. ISBN: 88-86975-10-4 Price: € 42,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 27,30. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero This great volume greatly expands the outline of Romanic churches in the Florentine countryside which begun with the publication on Mugello and Val di Sieve, by embracing the entire medieval diocese of Florence up to the south of the Arno river. One-hundreds and twenty five Romanic buildings are presented, many of which unknown, that offer a capillary outline of most densely crowded medieval Tuscany. This area embraces a territory that, leaving from the Valdelsa fiorentina, crosses the Val di Pesa, the Val di Greve and reaches the course of the Arno river in Florence. It's a great triangular area that has its corners in Empoli, Firenze-Bagno a Ripoli and Poggibonsi. In the middle of such trangle there are the towns of the so-called Florentine Chianti, like Saint Casciano Val di Pesa, Tavarnelle, Impruneta, while the sides are marked north-side by Montelupo, Lastra a Signa and Scandicci; south-west side by Montespertoli, Certaldo and Castelfiorentino; south-east side by Barberino Val d' Elsa and by the extreme parts of the commons of the Chianti area.
Edited by A. Naldi, "Città e centri storici della Toscana. Vol. 1 Da Firenze a Siena, da Arezzo alla Maremma" Size: cm 24x30, 224 pages, 240 photos and colour tables ISBN: 88-86975-38-4 Price: € 46,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 29,90. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero In this book are collections the most ancient town and the most typical ones among the historical towns of the Southern and Middle Tuscany. The work is subdivided in five parts each correspondent to an area with the homogenous characters of an important culture center. In the Florence area Volterra and its territory; in the Sienaarea Arezzo and the Valdichina; Grosseto and the Maremma. Each of these areas is described in its historical and anthropological aspects, focusing the attention on the main historical towns through the aid of 240 colour pictures of the highest quality. The text is fresh and interesting and is available both in Italian and English language in the same book.
Edited by A. Naldi, "La Toscana delle pievi" Size: cm 30x24, 196 pages, 229 photos and colour tables ISBN: 88-86975-29-5 Price: € 38,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 24,70. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero In this volume we have gathered the most beautiful and significant examples among the hundreds of "pievi" (parishes) that existed in the region since the first centuries of Christianity. It is a fascinating trip in search of buildings and places often far from the noise and haste of everyday life; places which induces to contemplation and meditation. This book is also intended as an invitation to go along the same itineraries of the photographers who caught the light on ancient wall hangings, facades, apses, stone pillars or columns in the interiors, paying the right tribute to so many humble and unknown builders. This is a book which has to be read open-heartedly in order of not to miss the thrills and beauty it intends to offer you.
Edited by A. Favini e A. Naldi, "Tesori segreti della campagna toscana" Size: cm 31x29, 228 pages, 134 photos and colour tables ISBN: 8886975-44-9 Price: € 48,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 31,20. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero On exploring the Tuscan countryside, a land where the past has left behind a rich number of traces, we should be looking for the origins of the relationship between our soul and history, the real, everyday culture, and the roots of the emotions that are triggered off by contact with what we see. Therefore, the beauty is not a banal and superficial escape, but a starting point for a search that does not lies outside our feelings, but is rather aimed at understanding the history of the places in their wider sense: places as the expression of the spirit of those who came before us. These places are kind a sort of archetype of certain ideas and images which have accompanied us since childhood. And so if we bring emotion into our search for knowledge, the emotion will have the chance to link to objective references, to facts, to material objects whose form, style and poetic language we will be able to better understand.