Buggiano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northwest of Florence and about southwest of Pistoia.

Main sights

• Sanctuary of the Holy Crucifix (18th century)

• Pieve di Sant'Andrea (11th century).

• Pieve of San Lorenzo (13th century), remade in the two following centuries. It has a Romanesque bell tower with double mullioned windows, including the basement of an 11th-century tower. The interior has several 16th-century canvasses and a 14th-century crucifix.

• Madonna della Salute e di San Nicolao: 11th century church houses a 12th-13th century marble baptismal font with intarsia; a 1442 Annunciation by Bicci di Lorenzo; a painting of the Archangels Michael and Raphael with Tobias attributed to Giovanni Battista del Verrocchio; and a Baptism of Christ by Francesco Bachiacca.

• Villa Bellavista: 1695 baroque villa

Twin cities

• Ascheberg, Germany

People

• Benito Lorenzi (footballer)

• Vasco Ferretti (writer)

• Piqued Jacks (band)

References

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