Main Sights
- Palazzo del Vicario (13th-14th centuries), now the Town Hall
- Palazzo Palagio or del Podestà (12th-13th centuries)
- Cathedral, dating perhaps to the 5th-6th century but later rebuilt several times. It is mentioned for the first time in 872 but the oldest surviving remains date to the 13th century. It houses a funerary tomb by Raffaello da Montelupo.
- Gothic church of St. Francis (13th century). The Cardini Chapel, whose design was once attributed to Brunelleschi, it is now assigned to Andrea Cavalcanti: it houses a fresco by Neri di Bicci (1458). The right apse chapel has a fresco cycle with Stories of the Virgin by Bicci di Lorenzo (15th century), while in the left chapel is a Madonna with Child by Angelo Puccinelli (1335). The panel of St. Francis and the Episodes of His Life, by Bonaventura Berlinghieri (1235), is the first known depiction of St. Francis' iconography.
- Communal Palace
- City Library
- Old Flower Market (1951) for its modern architecture
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