Tourism Valdarno

I made some researches about the Church of S. Romolo in the rural site of Gaville (Figline Valdarno, FI), to do a university's exam. I share my work to make know this little cultural heritage of the High-Valdarno.
The research is focused on the history of the church between XI and XV century. From the point of tecnical and artistic view, I want to talk about the "sinopia" and its fresco (this one inside the church).
I focused on the tecnique and I tried to imagine how the masters could reproduce on the plaster in the wall, the draw of the Madonna and two saints: Romolo and Pietro. What means they used? and how can we make an attribution of that work in compare with the finished art work?
In the years the "red draw" was confused with its fresco, kept inside the church.
In the meantime the people of the site forgot, not only the long history, which bond the church to Fiesole's bishoprick and let us know more about how was organized the churches distribution in this area. But also, they forgot (or don't know) how to promote this cultural heritage, rare and unknown to many of the inhabitants.
Hoping for immediate restoration to preserve at least the draw over the portal, for now I'm glad to have found more about this medieval site and to share it with you all.
Enjoy the reading.

Help us to put the 1 million years old fossil skull of an elephant on show to the public, in the Paleontological Museum of Montevarchi (AR). Only 7 days remaining to reach the goal...

In the autumn of 2016, two hunters notice a pair of elephant tusks surfacing from the earth, in the area of Tasso in Terranuova Bracciolini (AR)
They are the remains of a Mammuthus meridionalis, a species of elephant that lived in the Upper Valdarno when the environment was similar to the African savanna of today. The discovery called for a paleontological excavation and the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle Provincie di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo prepared for it, with the help of the Faculty of Scienze della Terra of the University of Florence and the Paleontological Museum of Montevarchi.
At the end of May 2017, the paleontological excavation begins, with the collaboration of palaeontologists, archaeologists, geologists, restorers and photographers: courageous and tight-knit teamwork, that challenges a savanna-like climate!
After two months of digging a skull comes to light, with its tusks, and an elephant's ulna, together with fragments of Equidae's teeth and the shoulder blade of a Cervidae: all remains just over 1.6 million years ago.
In September 2017 the fossil is moved into a restoration laboratory in San Giovanni Valdarno. The laboratory is the destination of guided tours of visitors and schools. In few months, more than a thousand visitors came to the laboratory.
Finally in July 2018, with delicate and very demanding operations, the fossil is moved into the Paleontological Museum in Montevarchi; there the restoration continues.
The planning is involving different groups of people: everybody is called to put forward ideas and suggestions.

Your contribution will be fundamental to put on show the new fossil: it will be the result of a journey made with many people, including you!