Books, video and music about Prato

	Prato e provincia. I tesori artistici della città, le ville medicee, i castelli Author: Not available Publisher: Touring Date: 2004 Topic: Geography
Author: M. Pinelli, "Firenze Romanica" Size: cm 24x32, 224 pages, 65 colour tables, 144 black and white illustrations, paper-back binding. ISBN: 88-86975-39-2 Price: € 46,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 29,90. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero The work offers a wide picture about the most significative historical vicissitudes, about the architecture, the plastic and inlaid decoration of the most ancient churches of Florence, of its surrounding peasantry placed north of the Arno, embracing the pivieri Florentine "pivieri" up to Bisenzio, Monte Morello, Monte Senario and the course of the Sieve, comprising also Fiesole and its "Isle". The first Christian buildings and the territory are presented via a structure that is made up of three essential parts. First comes an historical and religious introduction of Florence, Fiesole, the peasantry, followed by the description of the complex architectonic and decorative characteristics of that times. A serious attempt is made in order to to make light on some aspects of the "Florentine Romanic" that are still without answer. An accurate description of the filed buildings concludes the book. Seventy-six beautiful churches are described in full details: some of these churches where never desrcibed before. Many short, but accurate, description about buildings dating back up to1250, and than do not conserve any trace of the original structure or even are no more visible are presented too.
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.