The Saint Peter Parish in Vaglia

The Saint Peter Parish was founded before year 1000, as testified by an official document issued in 983 by the Emperor Ottone II, in which the homonymous parish is quoted as a well known and attended place by pilgrims and travellers.

Along the centuries the Parish was restored and modified according to its actual aspect.

The Saint Peter Parish saves important artworks, some of them are attributed to the painter Angelo Nardi, native of the village, who moved to Spain and worked at the court of the Spanish King Filippo IV.

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From there he sent some valuable objects, of which just a fine seventeenth-century reliquary remains today.

Inside the parish it is also possible to admire fine paintings like a "Blessing Christ" and "Some Saints", painted by Domenico Pugliani (1620-1694) and Lorenzo Lippi (1606-1665) and an "Our Lady of the Rosary", painted by Pietro Confortini, and also a fine wooden Crucifix made by Giambologna (1529-1608).