Books, video and music about San Gimignano

	Un giorno a San Gimignano. Nuova guida pratica Author: Torriti Piero Publisher: Bonechi - Edizioni Il Turismo Date: 2003 Topic: Geography
AA.VV. "Chiese medievali della Valdelsa. - 2 - I territori della Via Francigena - Tra Siena e San Gimignano" Size: cm 21x30, 300 pages, 102 colour tables, 118 black and white illustrations, paper-back binding. ISBN: 88-86975-08-2 Price: € 42,00. Discount for online purchases: 35%. Price for online purchases: € 27,30. Shipment and handling: please ask. Editori dell'Acero In this volume the most interesting area of Tuscany from an artistic point of view, because of the density of its medieval towns (San Gimignano, Colle di Val d'Elsa, Monteriggioni, Casole d'Elsa, Siena) is examined for the first time through its less known monuments. Imposing complexes,like the great monastery of "Abbazia a Isola", are discussed in depth both about their history and about their constructive and decorative chamges in a work that puts ninety-two Romanic buildings together, of which at least fifteen never presented before. The volume follows the methodological structure of previous volume 1. Several aspects are faced, among which also the instruments for building the churches.. A work that, dealing with the so-called "Valdelsa senese" couples itself with the previous volume that refers to the "Valdelsa fiorentina" This is a "must have" volume for the study of the Romanic Tuscany.
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.
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.
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.