Church of Santa Reparata

Built between 1594 and 1605, it has an imposing Latin cross plan.

It is situated opposite the Palace of the Commissioners, as if to emphasize the two powers that preside over  the orderly civil life. The construction commission was given to Mastro Raffaello di Zenobi from Pagno da Fiesole, who probably reworked Camerini’s original design and, between 1594  and 1605, he constructed the sacred building on the area left free according to the general and detailed plan by Camerini.

The façade has double pilasters, extending beyond the median cornice to the tympanum, softened by two side volutes.

The portal is banded with a denticulated motif and surmounted by a lunette. an oval window dominates the center and is replicated on both sides of the transept. The apse is pentagonal, with slightly pointed arches. The building is built in terracotta, alternating in the mouldings with sandstone.

The interior, like the exterior, is still purely Renaissance, with a single nave covered with  trusses and linked by a notched cornice supported by Ionic pilasters and marked by four triumphal arches.

Numerous works of art are preserved in the church. The first one is the 18th-century compass and chancel  with the organ by Feliciano Fedeli da Camerino (b. 1734), restored in 1973. Then we can see the 16th-century choir in solid walnut, carved and decorated with fluted pilasters and a notched architrave, which repeats the  motif of the cornice and a wooden Crucifix, an exquisite sculpture of the Florentine school (16th century). Following this we can observe the Easter candelabrum, with a carved walnut stem with a foot on a triangular base (16th century); the altarpiece with the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel and the holy martyrs Reparata and Caterina by Pier Paolo Menzocchi  (b. 1575).

Finally, the altarpiece with Our Lady of the Rosary with Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena by Francesco  Longhi (b. 1610); Crucifixion of the Romagna school (17th century); Deposition and Nativity (on the choir  choir walls) of the Florentine school (17th century).

Next to the church stands the slender bell tower, completed between 1821 and 1825, under whose arches is the impressive Baptistery.