IL PIANO
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Red Bank
Built according to the design of Giovanni Michelucci from Pistoia, it dates back to 1973 and was completed in 1983 to replace the wool mill designed in neo-Gothic style by Antonio Salvetti. It is a work with an original structure, which develops on five floors supported by a network of red metal elements on local stone walls. This suspended grid creates space a covered square below for public use. As a whole, the structure is like a fragment of the “new city,” interpreting the collective needs by creating an open and penetrable space that perfectly reflects Michelucci’s concept of the bank as a place of encounter and exchange.
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Santa Maria Assunta a Spugna
The name Spugna comes from the type of sandstone which has the appearance of a sponge. It is recorded in a document since 1777. This is one of the most ancient church of Colle. The restoration in the early twentieth century gave the building a neogothic aspect to the façade (a mullioned window opening within a pointed archand
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a crowning with hanging archies). The church has a rectangular plan, single nave with two small apses on the sides. On the walls there are the remains of frescoes. Among the works of art preserved inside is a 16th century painting of the Tuscan school depicting the Saints Biagio, Francesco, Pietro da Verona and Bartolomeo.
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