Sant'Agostino, Prato explained

Building Name:Chiesa di Sant'Agostino
Location:Prato, Italy
Religious Affiliation:Roman Catholic
Architecture Type:Church
Architecture Style:Romanesque
Groundbreaking:1300 ca.
Year Completed:1700 ca.
Sant'Agostino is a Romanesque-style brick church in central Prato, Tuscany, Italy.

An oratory and small Augustinian monastery had been present on the site since 1271. Construction of the church lasted until 1440. New altars were built in the 16th and 17th century. It became a parish church upon the suppression of the convent in 1810. Since 1964, it has belonged to the Sacramentine order.[1]

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43.8844°N 11.0962°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.comune.prato.it/gallerie/?action=dettaglio&id_album=1&id_galleria=80&lang=it&nomefile=_mg_1350.jpg Comune of Prato