The Oratory of San Desiderio is the old church of a Benedictine monastery on Via dei Laudesi, in the center of Pistoia: a small, now deconsecrated hall that is worth a stop for a single, great 16th-century fresco.
The whole back wall is...
The Church of Saints Maria and Tecla, also called the Church of the Vergine, is a modern work by Giovanni Michelucci, on the southeastern outskirts of Pistoia, on Piazza della Vergine. It is not a church you visit for frescoes: it is a sober,...
Piazza San Francesco is the large tree-lined square on the northwest side of Pistoia's center, laid out as a public garden: it was once common pasture, and for centuries it has been where the people of Pistoia meet and stroll.
The square...