San Lorenzo a Fossato, Cantagallo

A church at the site was erected in the 11th century, under the administration of the former abbey Of San Salvatore in Fontana Taona, located near the town of Sambuca Pistoiese.

The present layout of this church derives from a reconstruction circa 1580, which added the lateral aisles.

Above the main altar is a wooden crucifix carved by the brothers Chimenti and Leonardo del Tasso in 1497.

The crucifix originally was made for and kept in the Vallombrosian church of San Pancrazio, Florence, and moved here in 1813.

[1] The walls of the nave have a majolica Via Crucis dating to after 1746, when the items were popularized by the sermons of St Leonardo da Porto Maurizio.