The Saint Antimo Church

The Saint Antimo Church was built around 1377 for the religious Agostinian order's will and at the beginning it was called Saint Michele.

Later the building was enlarged and modified changing also its name in Saint Agostino and finally it was called Saint Antimo.

The fortheenth-century Saint Antimo Church, based on a Gothics-Pisan style, reminds the ancient belonging of the town to Pisa.

On the right side of the church is placed a cloister made by Andrea Guardi on Reinassence style in 1470: it presents a portico placed on marble columns and capitals.

On each side of the door there are some tombs belonging to the local gentilitial family of the Appiano.

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The interior of Saint Antimo Church has two aisles. At first the church was built with an only aisle but in 1933 there was got another aisle by the union of two chapels.

On the facade can be seen on the right the Reinassence sepulchre of Jacopo IV's sons and the fortheenth-century sepulchre of Gherardo d'Appiano.

Inside the church on the right side it is possible to admire a particular baptisimal font portraying some bass-relieves illustrating hunting scenes made in the fifteenth century by Andrea Guardi. On the left side there is another baptisimal font marble made by the same artist.