Discover Legoli: Art, Tabernacle and Alta Valdera

Legoli reveals itself through several distinct features: the contemporary “Presenze” installation, the tabernacle in Legoli and views across the Alta Valdera landscape. Art, cultural heritage and landscape each add their own emphasis. This allows you to consider the town through the themes that interest you on your trip: from large-scale sculptures to a painted tabernacle and a panorama from a church terrace.

“Presenze”: Sculptures and the Idea of Change

The “Presenze” installation comprises four sculptures by Naturaliter Snc, ranging from 5 to 9 metres in height. These dimensions give the work a large-scale character, while the group also encompasses different heights. The sculptures are made of polystyrene and polyurethane foam and clad in cement fibre. The materials and outer covering thus represent two distinct aspects of their design. “Presenze” was inspired by the idea that new life can emerge from waste. The physical materials therefore sit alongside a reflection on change and renewal. Those interested in contemporary art will find points of connection both in the size of the figures and in the artistic idea behind them.

Triangolo Verde and Its Activities

Triangolo Verde is directly accessible from Via Libbiano a Legoli. Its activities include events, cultural programmes and training courses. Free guided tours are also planned at Triangolo Verde, covering the waste treatment and disposal facility, the area of the “Giants” or both. If a tour is part of your plans, check in advance whether one is available during your visit. This distinguishes this topic from Legoli’s art and cultural heritage features: here, the focus is on activities and the possibility of taking a guided tour.

Tabernacle: Frescoes and a History of Protection

The tabernacle in Legoli is decorated with frescoes on all four sides, so the artwork is not limited to a single surface. To protect the tabernacle, Alesso della Fanteria built a small funerary oratory in 1822. The four-sided frescoes and the oratory offer two different perspectives on the same tabernacle: its artistic decoration and its history of protection. The tabernacle was probably created by Benozzo Gozzoli during his stay in Legoli. This probable attribution places the building in an art-historical context, while the frescoes and the oratory describe specific aspects of its design and history.

Cycling to the Tabernacle

The Ghizzano–Libbiano–Legoli circular cycling route includes a short detour to the Tabernacolo di Benozzo Gozzoli in the Chapel of Santa Caterina in Legoli. The tabernacle is therefore also identified as a destination along a circular cycling route. For your trip planning, this detour connects a cycling reference with a specific cultural heritage feature, without requiring the town’s different themes to be reduced to a single focus.

Views Across the Alta Valdera

From the terrace of the Parish Church of Saints Giusto and Bartolomeo, the view stretches across the woods, wheat fields, vineyards and olive groves of the Alta Valdera. The panorama thus encompasses wooded areas and a range of agricultural landscapes. The scale shifts when compared with the tabernacle: there, the frescoes and oratory of a single building are the focus; from the terrace, it is the landscape and its varied expanses. If you would like to explore the Alta Valdera landscape as well as art and cultural heritage, this view offers a distinct way to experience Legoli’s surroundings.

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