Peccioli Explained

Peccioli
Official Name:	Comune di Peccioli
Coordinates:	43.55°N 53°W
Region:	Tuscany
Province:	Pisa (PI)
Frazioni:	Cedri, Fabbrica, Ghizzano, Legoli, Libbiano, Montecchio, Montelopio
Mayor Party:	Peccioli Futura
Mayor:	Renzo Macelloni
Area Total Km2:	92.6
Population Footnotes:	^[1]
Population Total:	4893
Population As Of:	2014
Elevation M:	144
Postal Code:	56037
Area Code:	0587

Peccioli (pronounced as /it/) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 50km (30miles) southwest of Florence and about 30km (20miles) southeast of Pisa.

Main sights

• Pieve di San Verano, most likely built between the end of the 11th and the beginning of the 12th century. It has a façade with five blind arcades and Lombard bands. The belltower, from 1885, inglobates remains of the medieval structure. The interior has a nave and two aisles: it houses canvasses from Jacopo Vignali, an 18th-century crucifix, a Madonna with Child and Saints by Neri di Bicci (1484) and two paintings from the 13th century Pisan school.
• Chapel of Santa Caterina, including a late 15th-century tabernacle frescoed by Benozzo Gozzoli when he had moved in the area to escape plague.

External links

• On-line book about History of Peccioli (in Italian)

Notes and References

1. All demographics and other statistics: Italian statistical institute Istat.