Here's a depliant of the Castle:
Here's a depliant of the Castle:
Just a few minutes walk from the village you can see several interesting monuments. Here are some of them:
Dedicated
to St. Mary Magdalene and annexed to the Palazzo Curini-Galletti,the chapel was
designed by the engineer Bombicci. Inside the chapel there are three gilded cornices.
The first one is placed behind the main altar and frames a fresco by G.B. Tempesti
(1729-1804), but the other two are empty because the artist refused to paint anything
inside them.
Situated just outside the village, the laundry rooms are an integral feature of a brilliant method of water conservation and management. Up until the 1960´s the water used to wash the clothes came from a cistern that was connected up-stream with the one in Piazza Tommaseo at the foot of the Castle. This, in its turn, is connected to the one in the Castle Courtyard. In this way surplus water was not wasted but was stored for this purpose.
The
building of the Oratorio della Madonna della Neve (Oratory of the Madonna of the Snow),
more correctly called Madonna di Valcella, was started in 1633; it was restored in 1742.
The portico is composed of two pseudo-Tuscan central columns and two lateral columns.
Inside the building there is a holy-water stoop made out of one of the capitals of the
old church of San Bartolomeo di Triano. The main altar is the work of Giovanni Battista
Vaccà(1734) and is the material manifestation of the Holy Trinity, while the
beautiful choir is by Giovanni Cremoni.
The
oratory, with its elegant Ionic columns that support the tympanum on the front, dates
from the 17th.century but was re-built in thanksgiving following the Plague of 1632.
In 1785 the oratory was desecrated and two paintings by G.B. Tempesti that decorated the
altars were destroyed. They were replaced in 1790 by two works attributed to the Melani.
In
the area around Lari are some paths made by the Italian Climbers´ Association
(CAI) which give you access to the countryside surrounding the town and allow you to
discover long forgotten routes.
Click here for a section of the map.
