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San Bartolomeo a Monte Sante Marie
Loc. Monte Sante Marie 53041 Asciano
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The reference church of the castle of Monte Sante Marie has always been the ancient parish church of San Vito in Versuris, a few hundred meters away from the town. Inside the castle, which later became an important agricultural village, a small church dedicated to San Bartolomeo seems to have existed already in ancient times.
This place of worship, like the whole village, has undergone numerous syconstructions due to war destruction and at the beginning of the twentieth century, by a strong earthquake.
What remains of the building today is of little interest, but in the past it contained some rather relevant works of religious art.
In this regard, there is a Madonna with Children on wood, by the fifteenth-century Sienese painter: Pellegrino di Mariano Rossini, now preserved in the Casa Corboli Museum.
Throughout the twentieth century this church was the one frequented by the inhabitants of the village, up to the stage of complete depopulation. Today a private chapel of the Fattoria Tesi remains and can be visited only on request.
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