Santi Bartolomeo e Silvestro
Facts and practical information
The church of Saints Bartholomew and Sylvester is located in the hamlet of La Costa in Uzzano, in the province of Pistoia.
Of the original Romanesque structure the external stone face remains, with the central eye and hanging arches.
The single-nave interior has 18th-century renovations. To the right of the entrance is an unusual baptismal font dating from the early 20th century made of terracotta and majolica. On the right wall, a fresco depicting the Virgin and Child with Saints. On either side of the high altar are two polychrome wooden statues depicting St. Sylvester and St. Bartholomew. On the left side altar is a 19th-century painted papier-mâché statue called the Divine Shepherdess. Very beautiful are the two marble holy water stoups-one wall-mounted and the other stacked-carved with cherub heads the first and with elegant pods the second, dated 1600. The church holds various paintings from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. On the high altar is a panel painting of the "Virgin Mary Enthroned and Saints" by an unknown 16th-century Florentine. Along the perimeter of the building, the canvas "St. Michael the Archangel Killing the Devil" and the "Nativity of the Virgin Mary" by Ippolito Brunetti and the "Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary with St. Dominic and St. Catherine of Siena" by Giacomo Tais.
The church was a parish seat until 1986, when it was suppressed and merged with Uzzano.
Tuscany
Santi Bartolomeo e Silvestro – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Pieve di Sant'Andrea, San Francesco, Arcipretura dei Santi Jacopo e Martino, Chiesa della Madonna della Salute e di San Nicolao.