Arezzo es un municipio italiano, en la Toscana, capital de la provincia del mismo nombre. Su población era de 99.503 habitantes en 2009.
Se encuentra a 215 km de Roma y a 75 de Florencia.
La Basílica de San Francisco es una iglesia de la Edad Media tardía en Arezzo, Toscana, Italia, dedicada a San Francisco de Asís. Es conocida sobre todo por albergar en las paredes del coro el ciclo de frescos Leyenda de la cruz por Piero della Francesca.
La catedral de los santos Pedro y Donato[1] es el principal lugar de culto católico de la ciudad de Arezzo y catedral de la diócesis de Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro.
Ubicada en la cumbre de un collado sobre el que se asienta la ciudad, está en el sitio donde hubo una iglesia paleocristiana y, probablemente, en el lugar donde antiguamente estaba la acrópolis ciudadana.
The Basilica of San Domenico is a Gothic-style church in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, dedicated to St Dominic. It is especially renowned for housing a painted crucifix by Cimabue.
Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church in Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy.
It is located on the site of an ancient sanctuary with a spring that, in the Etruscan-Roman era, it was consecrated to Apollo. In the Middle Ages it was known as Fonte Tecta.
In 1425, Saint Bernardino of Siena tried in vain to have it destroyed. Ousted from the city, he returned in 1428 and, this time, he was able to obtain the replacement of the spring with an oratory. Here, from 1428 and 1431, Parri di Spinello, son of Spinello Aretino, painted a fresco with the Madonna of Misericordia, now inserted in the marble altar by Andrea Della Robbia . The altar portrays, in the tympanum, a Madonna with Child between two Angels; in the niches are the saints Laurentinus, Pergentinus, Donatus and Bernardino, while the paliotto has a Pietà.
Around 1490, the oratory received a portico, designed by Benedetto da Maiano. The structure was inspired by Filippo Brunelleschi's Ospedale degli Innocenti. On the longest side it has seven arcades with medallions, on a basement with steps.
The church itself was built from 1435 to 1444, a late Gothic edifice designed by Domenico del Fattore, with a single nave with cross-vaults and a short apse. It houses a fresco with Pope Sixtus IV Enthroned between cardinals Gonzaga and Piccolomini. At the right side, a chapel dedicated to Saint Bernardino was built after his death in 1444.
