Badia has Passignano

Badia has Passignano is more precisely the place of the Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo has Passignano , today the designation of a Frazione of the commune of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa in the Province of Florence.

History

It was one of the most important monastic communities Vallombrosien born from the Toscane.

In the beginning, sits of a fort lombard then of a castle, a monastery Benedictine is founded towards 890, meadows of the Oratory of San Michele in Passignano, become then vallombrosien by the work of Giovanni Leto, disciple of San Giovanni Gualberto which spent there last the years of its life and where it was buried, on July 12th, 1073.

The monastery, occupied, with the passing of years, all the high part of the old castle, about 1221 was confirmed the possession of the planted surrounding grounds of vines and the recognition on behalf of the pope Gregoire VII.

In the years which followed it undergoes several installations with a Romance church has single nave with plan with Latin cross, increased towards the presbytery.

In 1255 the abbey, other than the church, is destroyed by Scolari di Montebuoni (of which the grandfather had offered some grounds to the convent) with an aim of it réapproprier.

They were then moved away by Ruggero dei Buondelmonti abbot from Passignano.

The current architectural structure, with its powerful walls and its notched towers, date of 1440-1455 then is supplemented about 1472 with construction of the cloister.

The monastery, removed in 1866 and transformed into borough strengthened with interventions of restorations in neo-gothic style, returned in 1986 the possession of the monks vallombrosiens.

Since 1080, a church dedicated to San Biagio was built in addition to that, San Michele, was included in the initial monastery.

She was renovated between 1335 and 1340 and are presented with a room painted to fresco with two cycles of Filippo d' Antonio Filippelli of the Quattrocento (covered then given to the day in 1892).

Precise details on works

In the refectory of the monastery, a Ultima cena going back to 1476 of Domenico Ghirlandaio and his/her brother Davide.
the monument with San Giovanni Guadalbeto (1507-1513) of Benedetto da Rovezzano was transferred in the church San Salvi from Florence.

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