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Outside it walls to them
Church of Saint Leopoldo
In 1836 it came put down the first stone of this church, by now necessary
yield to an increasing takeover like Follonica; constructed on the base of
the plan of the Arch. Alexander Throttles and of I generate Carl
commissioned Reishammer and from the Granduca Leopoldo II. The jobs that
lasted two years (the construction came consecrated in 1838) saw the
employment of a rather unusual material like the cast iron for the greater
part of the decorations much to represent the caught up higher point from
the artistic production of the local foundry.
From many defined the more interesting building of the citizen, the Church
of S.Leopoldo is a building of neoclassico stamp to Latin cross and
introduces the beautifulst one pronao whose peculiarity, the use of the
cast iron, has made yes that the structure has earned the nickname of
"church of the cast iron". Of cast iron they are the braces of
three columns that support a trabeazione rich decorated and the balustrade
to traforo that it delimits the area of the pronao. The arc centers is
emphasized them from a frame in cast iron elegant decorated with acroterii
to palmettos to the outside and with one wrap traforata with cherubs to
the inside. To sides of the arc there are two fregi in cast iron models to
you in the 1841 from the scultore Lorenzo Nencini with
raffigurazioni of Saint Leopoldo that distributes the assets the poor ones:
on the left there is the delivery of breads and on the right the
delivery of the garments (both the episodes have been chosen with the
attempt to celebrate the illuminated reclamation work promoted from the
Granduca in Fen).
The inside, to navata only with cover to hut and time to cruise, once
again introduces the employment of the cast iron as material for the
church furnishingses: the base of the pulpit, the balustrade of the
presbiterio, the supports of the caterings, the columns that emphasize
candelabri to sides of the greater altar the apse and the splendid ones.
In the transetto skillful we find the monument funerario of Raffaele
Sivieri, first director of the Administration of the Mines of the Iron,
constituted from busto in marble signed from Leopoldo Archangels (1839)
and one lapide inserted within one frame centinata in cast iron.
To the inside of the arc opened to the center of the greater altar the
tabernacolo is inserted in marble executed from Lorenzo Nencini in 1841;
the ciborio, supported from two angioletti places, according to originates
them invention, of shoulders, introduces a newspaper stand of octagonal
shape, fine carved with neoquattrocenteschi reasons (acanthus leaves) and
is sormontato from the dove of the Saint Spirit.
On the left of the greater altar a nail head is found and to the inside of
a niche in stucco I polish pearly is the christening font with the
pedestal in cast iron, the bathtub in bardiglio and the pregevole statue
in marble white man of Saint Giovanni carved Batiste anch' it from the
Nencini with one tender attention of purista stamp. On the altar of the
nail head the "Madonna hypothetical riferibile Ilvania" to
Leopoldo Archangels.
In the left arm of the transetto a graceful ritraente nineteenth-century
painting is found the Vergine and the Child, popularly called
"Madonna of the Aid".
Former Hydraulic Casello
Recently restored the mansion to two plans with private court and elegant
turret, overhanging terrace and roof cover, were constructed for order of
the Granduca in 1840 with the precise attempt to make of "the house
of the hydraulic service"; stable divenne in fact the directive
center of the reclamation of lowlands goes them of the Sheep and the
Cornia.
The Gobba/Pinacoteca House To Modigliani
It made part of the most ancient inhabited nucleus than Follonica, the
construction was originally a sight tower that then was transformed in
customs office. The going back building to first years ' 20 (late-liberty
style) was constructed like house of the bundle that it accommodated to
the flat land knows it from dance and of meeting, used also in occasion of
conventions and extensions.
In years ' 70 it was center of the Professional Institute of State and
between years ' 80 and the ' 95 it has been center of offices publics; the
building hour is center of the Communal Pinacoteca To Modigliani, museum
that it accommodates approximately 150 pictures of contemporary artists
(Giuggioli, Bastianelli, Raddi, Pericci, Sabatelli, Cicalini etc.)
Customs
Planned from Alexander Throttles, constructed in the first post-war period,
it came very soon assigned to the financial polices and to the customs
officers who before were in the Hunchback House.
The Storta House
In origin used after barracks and then widened under the Lorena, later on
it was used in order to control the intense traffic trades them.
Monument to the Fallen
In 1925 the marmoreo complex to memory of the fallen of the great war came
place in Public square Vittorio Veneto, operates of the scultore Stone
Santino Giacomo Zilocchi, under the direction of the jobs of grossetano
Ing Porciatti. The monument in marble white man is composed from two
monoliths and a book carved in marble white man operates of Piergiorgio
Balocchi (teaching of sculpture to the academy of Carrara), the work is
encircled from pilastrini in cast iron.
Terrace to sea
The quarters of forehead to the sea accommodate the busto marmoreo of the
maremmano patriot Ettore Socci, the zone assumed the conformation odierna
in years ' 30.
Villa Bendetti
Interesting novecentesca villa in style liberty, the pressed ones of the
Church, ordinary masonry, intonacata with porticato of income, turret and
windows to trifora. Interesting is the representing cornice attic of
classic inspiration with lesene and metope floreali images. The porticato
one of income with three arches to all sixth supported from pillars with
capitelli pseudocorinzi and balustrade rich worked to floreali reasons.
S.Anna Villa
In Italy Tree-lined avenue, going back to years 1920-' 30; adorned from an
elegant octagonal turret the entrance it is emphasized from pronao of
overhanging income with balustrade and columns with capitello composite.
Villa Jole Monciatti
In Via Bicocchi 107 finds this villa in neoclassico style with austeri prospects in mattoni to face seen with double lancet windows of neogotico sapore and decorations liberty in cast iron in the balustrade of the terrazzino over the portone of income.
Shacks on the sea
the shacks and the villette liberty of the Lungomare came constructed between years ' 20 and ' 30 in order to throw again the economy of Follonica then heading also at the tourism. From a brano of the Communal Archives of going back Follonica to 21 October of the 1923 è obvious one desire to base the economy of the country on a field like the tourism, puts into effect them still today, "E' sure an ancient desire of this population of being able to have the control of the beach from which reason is had to obtain remarkable bathing development of movement of if held it sarà in the conditions necessary in order to render pleasant and hygienic the stay"; to the shacks in wood buildings in masonry were replaced and villini a lot that, still in a document of the time law, "the particular characteristic of the beach è that on same and for all the its length shacks and villini of proprietà private rise that during the season come occupied from the owners or yielded in rent" and observing many of these constructions has the impression that the time is not passed.
The Portale of the Mystery
On the limit of the chine south of the Public square to Sea situated from 1999 one sculpture realized from the artist Riccardo Grazzi; the monument in marble white man of Carrara represents a door that is opened towards the sea, place immense and loaded with mystery, from here therefore the title it "Portale of the Mystery". The artist, coming from from a family of scalpellini, loves to above all work the marble and the travertino, stone from instinctive considered he più, minibadly and primitiva. Its monuments, in kind, remember the antichi pagani altars, the steles, the trabeazioni of the templi arch it and. Its sculpture seems to behind bring back to one mythical and mystical vision to us searching a contact with the divine one and the sacred one; its doors socchiuse or opened wide against the sky are born così (stargate) that immettono in a world disowned and loaded with mystery (fantascientifica and dark vision) to which it is approached for one rampa of four scalini, crossing then a portale white man with arc to all sixth.
Allegoria of the Sea
Between the last works, in chronological order, commissioned to Ivan Theimer, this work laughed them to 1998. Ivan Theimer, painter and been born scultore to Olomouc (Moravia), in 1944, study in its country in the ' 65 participate for before the time to a collective exposure; in the ' 68 it continues its studies in France to Académie DES Beaux-Arts and in the ' 69 it gains Prix I.A.T. that recognizes a indiscusso happened to it. Today Theimer alive to Paris but soggiorna frequently to Pietrasanta where the greater part of the craftsmen is found with which it works. Its works are exposed in France, Germany and Italy. The works of this artist are red-establish to the traditional values, to the ancient technique of the bronzetto, of the only piece and of ritratto, and this could make sì that the works come read like reproductions of capolavori that a time were audacious innovations. It tries to recreate a continuum between simbologia and myth, symbols of the classicità with innumerevoli references to the past. Shells and grape bunches have meaning augur
them.
Sculptures in marble in the flower-beds
the sculptures that adorn the round ones of Follonica are the fruit of the job of come international artists in our citizen in occasion of a sculpture symposium; Hwang Seung Woo (Korea), Mario Tapia (Ecuador), Giuliano Orlandi (sculpture hands), Alexander Canu, Simone Zenaglia, Francisco Mazzotta, and Luca Marovino (tower).
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