Churches
San Pietro Apostolo a Radi
MONTERONI D'ARBIA
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The church of San Pietro Apostolo is in Radi, in the commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. It was first mentioned in the XIII-XIV century. Today it is made up of a small building with a nave and a semi-circular apse, with bricked front, which has been rebuilt in neo-Romanesque style in the XIX century; it is original the ribbed bell-tower. The most ancient evidence, on the inside, is the lateral eighteenth-century altar in stucco. From the church come a fourteenth-century canvas, now in the Museum of Buonconvento, which represents the “Mystic Marriage of Saint Caterina d’Alessandria and the Saints Giacomo and Antonio Abate”, attributable to the Master of Sant’Ivo and the “Madonna o the Star”, painted by Amos Cassioli in 1868 to order of the Marchese Alessandro Bichi Ruspoli, owner of the farm of Radi, now in the museum Cassioli of Asciano.The church of San Pietro Apostolo is in Radi, in the commune of Monteroni d’Arbia. It was first mentioned in the XIII-XIV century. Today it is made up of a small building with a nave and a semi-circular apse, with bricked front, which has been rebuilt in neo-Romanesque style in the XIX century; it is original the ribbed bell-tower. The most ancient evidence, on the inside, is the lateral eighteenth-century altar in stucco. From the church come a fourteenth-century canvas, now in the Museum of Buonconvento, which represents the “Mystic Marriage of Saint Caterina d’Alessandria and the Saints Giacomo and Antonio Abate”, attributable to the Master of Sant’Ivo and the “Madonna o the Star”, painted by Amos Cassioli in 1868 to order of the Marchese Alessandro Bichi Ruspoli, owner of the farm of Radi, now in the museum Cassioli of Asciano.