{"id":35,"date":"2013-04-27T01:13:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T23:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/the-church-of-the-annunziata-in-villa-fontane\/"},"modified":"2013-04-27T01:13:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T23:13:01","slug":"the-church-of-the-annunziata-in-villa-fontane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/home-en\/the-church-of-the-annunziata-in-villa-fontane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church of the Annunziata in Villa Fontane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annunziatafontane1-89e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-957\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/thumb_annunziatafontane1-6a3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The fa\u00e7ade of the Chiesa of the Annunziata a Villa Fontane\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><br \/> Click on the image to enlarge<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The Church, built in 1927, was dedicated to the Madonna of the Annunciation and, later on, to Saint Agapito. This happened in 1930 when the rural parish of Bisenzio joined the Annunziata and the Saint&#8217;s relics, as well as an altar-piece were moved there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annunziatavetrate1-e76.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-971\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th_annunziatavetrate1-dfa.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Polychrome stained glass windows created by Mario and Chiara Balestra\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annunziatavetrate2-a0c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-985\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th_annunziatavetrate2-980.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Stained Glass Window: The Crucifix\" width=\"199\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th_annunziatavetrate2-980.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th_annunziatavetrate2-980-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The parish church of the little suburb has been recently enriched with the sculptures by Mario Vinci and the polychrome stained glass windows created by the artists Mario and Chiara Balestra.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annunziatasacrafamiglia-bbe.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-999\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th_annunziatasacrafamiglia-551.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Holy Family\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annunziatadipinto-bbc.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1013\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/th_annunziatadipinto-a99.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the original painting of the Annunziata, painted by Sister Imelda (1933), in the Church it is also preserved, as already said, the eighteenth century altar-piece with Saint Agapito and a remarkable seventeenth century maiolica with a Madonna with a Child, recovered in the Piazzetta (little square) of Villa Fontane.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/maiol_vf-1c3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1027\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/thumb_maiol_vf-16b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Maiolica seicentesca con Madonna e Bambino\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/annunzia-cef.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1041\" src=\"http:\/\/demo.valentano.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/thumb_annunzia-c47.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Painting with the representation of the Annunziata in the Church of Villa Fontane\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the image to enlarge The Church, built in 1927, was dedicated to the Madonna of the Annunciation and, later on, to Saint Agapito. This happened in 1930 when the rural parish of Bisenzio joined the Annunziata and the Saint&#8217;s relics, as well as an altar-piece were moved there. \u00a0 The parish church of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/home-en\/the-church-of-the-annunziata-in-villa-fontane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Church of the Annunziata in Villa Fontane<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":46,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valentano.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}