{"id":308919,"date":"2024-08-09T21:08:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T19:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/montecarlo-st-andrews-church-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:57:54","slug":"montecarlo-church-of-sant-andrea","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/montecarlo-church-of-sant-andrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Sant&#8217;Andrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Sant&#8217;Andrea in the village of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/montecarlo\/\"><strong>Montecarlo,<\/strong><\/a> in Tuscany, was built in the 14th century, when Emperor Charles IV founded the castle of Montecarlo. The original building, of which the fa\u00e7ade remains\u2014constructed of large, square blocks of sandstone with a portal topped by a two-coloured lunette\u2014was in a very poor state by the mid-17th century, but was not restored until the late 18th century; the decorative elements were completed in the second half of the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary houses some of the most precious works; the most interesting is the statue of Saint Anthony the Abbot by Francesco di Valdambrino (first decade of the 15th century); the panel depicting the Enthroned Madonna and Child by Francesco Anguilla (1434) forms the central panel of a polyptych, the side panels of which are located in Birmingham, in the US state of Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of Sant\u2019Andrea in Montecarlo, Tuscany: from its medieval origins to the exquisite works by Francesco di Valdambrino and Francesco Anguilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":222639,"template":"","village-conntection":[50842],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76215,76210],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-308919","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-montecarlo-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-lucca-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-tuscany","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/308919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/308919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=308919"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=308919"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=308919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}