Buriano
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A hamlet on the slopes of Montalbano, divided between the villages of Cerretino, Baugiano, Maestrino, Tacinaia, Mulina, Pollaiolo.
Buriano is a hamlet of the municipality of Quarrata, on the slopes of Montalbano.
The village is divided into the villages of: Cerretino, Baugiano, Maestrino, Tacinaia, Mulina,Pollaiolo. In the latter there is the house of the father of the famous Florentine painters of the fifteenth century, Piero, and Antonio Benci, called the “Pollaiolo”.
Although its origins are ancient, and its existence attested in the Lombard era, Buriano had considerable importance in the Middle Ages.
Monumental Complex of Buriano
The church of San Michele Arcangelo, also known as the Monumental Complex of Buriano, built over a Longobard guard, houses, along the road that surrounds it, a way of the cross, consisting of fourteen paintings and an olive cross, from Jerusalem.
