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Visualizza Pievescola-San Chimento-Scorgiano-Marmoraia-Pievescola in una mappa di dimensioni maggiori
The
settement of Pievescola has developed around an ancient Parish church.
The
current phisionomy of a sparse settlement is in contrast with the ruins of the wall
on one side of the church, walls which we don't know the history of.
The
current name of Pievescola is an abbreviation of the more ancient toponimo Pieve a Scola
which would seem to indicate the presence of a school of letter or singing following an
old tradition
which came about at the time of the lombards. The first documents of the
presence of a parish church date from the 11th.C.
 The
parish church of San Giovanni Battista at Scola was built in the 12th.C. The façade is
characterised towards the right nave by a bell tower with mullioned windows which was
subsequently erected.
Above
the main entrance door there is a three mullioned window in yellow marble built in the
Pisano-lucchese style, which is to be considered in terms of the Pisan sculptor
Bonamico who was already active in the Parish of Mensano.
The
building has a basilical layout with three apses and three naves, each divided from the
other by five spans punctuated with quadrangular pillars with half columns and column
towards the entrance.
The
internal walls are in stone ashlars evenly spaced like the stonework
that forms the gothic arches, the pillars and the columns.
The
villa of Suvera is built on three floors the first of which is clearly built on a sloping
basement wall of the medioeval origins. It is characterised on both sides with overhanging
galleries
which make up a third of the height of the façade...
...creating
an effect of light and dark which lightens the imposing structure of the villa which is
ruled off with stone floormarkes. The style of the composition is related to that
Baldassare Peruzzi, the sienese architect connected with the Ghigi.
During
the middle ages the villa probably belonged to the counts of Ardenghesca and it is passed
to Nicolò della Rovere nephew of the pontif Giulio the 2nd. at the beginning of the
15th.C. It has had varius owners including the Ghigi, Saracini, Perfetti, the Portini and
the Borghese-Bichi families.
Seemingly the same, the galleries are very high. In the lower row the
arches are held up by square pillars, in the other row by travertine columns with doric
caps on the
first floor and ionic caps on the second.
The
renaissance style is more evident in the decoration of the galleries, especially in the
frescoed vaults painted with grotesques probably in the peruzzian style.
The
chapel which is probably the same age as the has a front subdivided by parastas
which finish in tryangular gables.
The
inside of the chapel rebuilt in the 1700's is interesting for reason of it's elegant
barocco style which may reflect the style of the Loire Valley.
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