Tavarnelle is included in the Florentine Chianti Museum's Circuit

Sacred Art Museum of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa (Museo di Arte Sacra di Tavarnelle Val di Pesa)

Open to the public  Saturday and Sunday  from 4 p.m to 7 p.m in Summer and from 3.30 p.m to 6.00 p.m in Winter. Free entrance.

At the same opening time of the museum, it is possible to visit the Church of San Pietro in Bossolo and the "Permanent exhibition of Punto Tavarnelle hand embroidery": exhibition of about 50 small art works (clothes, shoes, home furnitures,etc...)

Punto Tavarnelle Hand embroidery is a work made by women of the village from the beginning of the XX century. It is typical of this village and very famous.




MEF-The Museum Emilio Ferrari of Rural Civilization of San Donato in Poggio

Phone 055 8072338
(MEF – Museo Emilio Ferrari della cultura contadina)
Open to the public from Monday to Saturday: 9.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 4 pm to 7 pm; on Sunday from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. Free entrance.

Monuments
In the Tavarnelle area there are very many buildings of great historical and architecture value: Castles built upon the heights,to guard important comunication routes or with a sentinel and predominant position over the valleys directly beneath, as well as fortified settlements at the centre of vast properties.
Wonderful ancient churches, rich in history and art;monasteries (the Passignano complex with its monastery and the church in the castle with fortifications and garden are exceptional).Here can be found precious works of art such as the refectory frescos, with the Last Supper by Domenico and David del Ghirlandaio.Moreover,convents, sanctuary, churches and oratories, all of remarkable historic interests,are spread throughout the territory.
Villas, farms and ancient noble dwellings, the beauty of which testifies to the ancient owner's financial resources and cult of beauty and style.
But in the local scenery the simple peasants'dwellings too fit in perfectly, with their modest but harmonius essentially, a characteristic aspect of Tuscan country houses.