Santa Maria Church recorded since 1188, the church has a tabernacle-shaped stone façade with a single portal overtopped by a round arch. Two rectangular windows with a circular one in between, added in 19th century, give the façade a graceful motion. The interior has a Latin cross plan, and has been deeply modified during the early19th century restoration: the only surviving ancient features are the raised transept, roofed with wooden beams, and the presbytery with its cross-vaulted lady chapel, flanked by two apsidioles where there are Baroque altars. The frescoes of the central chapel, by late14th century Siennese masters (Cristoforo di Bindoccio e Meo di Pero), are partially concealed by several wall paint layers. Some remains of 15th century mural paintings have been recently found in the right chapel.

Sant'Antonio Abate ex-Church built during the Middle Ages, this church was deconsecrated in 19th century and turned in a theatre, which had its opening in 1883. In 1993-95 the building has been restored. The sandstone façade still preserves widely its Romanesque appearance, with a central archivolted portal flanked by two wide round arches. The interior is constituted by a single hall parted in three spans, the first two of which being covered with wooden beam and the last one with a barrel vault roof. During the recent restorations have been found fragments of mural paintings supposedly by Meo di Pero and Cristoforo di Bindoccio. The subjects of the paintings are a "Christ the Saviour within a mandorla" and "Three Saints", enclosed within frames marked with the image of a bell, that is the coat of arms of the town.

Monastery San Benedetto alla Nave is located on the slope of Mount Leoni, this monastery abolished in 1751 is today a private property and used as a farm. Of the church, by now in ruins, are left only the exterior walls. In the early years of 14th century the monastery was used as a shelter by some friars, followers of Brother Dolcino in flight from France and persecuted as heretics here too by the Blessed Thomas of Scarlino, who banished them from the area, and even by the people of the village nearby. Originally the monastery belonged to the Benedictine order, and was given in 15th century to the Minorite Observant friars. On all sides, hidden by the vegetation, there are ruins, roman fountain, ancient farms.

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