Books, video and music about Scandicci

	Scandicci: da borgo a città. Un profilo di storia urbana: 1866-1996 Author: Jaff Marco - Aiazzi Roberto Publisher: Alinea Date: 1997 Topic: Architecture
Edited by A. Favini, "Abbazie, Monasteri ed Eremi nel paesaggio della Toscana" Size: cm 33,5x25, 240 pages, 154 photos and colour tables ISBN: 88-88718-18-4 Price: € 50,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 32,50. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero This book aims to provide an intriguing journey through the most important monastic sites in Tuscany, looking beyond their immediate beauty. The basis of the work comprises high quality photographs and a text whose purpose is to provide a brief summary of the history, geografy and spirituality of the phenomenon of monasticism. The book's main purpose is to offer the reader a tool so that he can gradually grasp the dimension of silence, harmony and balance in the monasteries and hermitages together with their position in the landscape. In addition, we want to make the vibrations given off by the walls, sculptures and decorations come alive, even when they have become part of ruins or buildings in disrepair.
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, "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. Naldi, "Viaggio in Toscana" Size: cm 26x31, 224 pages, 184 photos and colour tables ISBN: 88-86975-48-1 Price: € 50,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 32,50. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero A "photografic journey" among the most beautiful places and landscapes of Tuscany required us to face the difficult task of choosing the most interesting and significant subjects to be immortalised. Since we wanted to give our route an organic structure, we divided it into four large areas which cover almost the entire territory of Tuscany. The obvious starting place is Florence, with its land that reflects the taste for measure and balance of its chief town. The second itinerary features the area which goes from the Lunigiana, crossing Lucca, touching Pisa, Volterra and Livorno, and then reaching Pistoia, Prato, the Mugello, the Pratomagno, the Casentino, Arezzo and the Valdichiana. The thirt part presents Sienna and its land, where the Valdelsa stands out along with the pearl of San Gimignano, the Val di Merse with San Galgano, the Chianti, the "Crete" and the Valdorcia with their landscapes and their beautiful centres. The journey ends in the vast land of the Maremma, from the heights of the Colline Metallifere to the coast, on to inland tuff made centres, ending on the slopes of Mount Amiata.