Straddling Val di Pesa and Valdelsa, the Pieve di San Donato stands imposingly surrounded by the beautiful Chianti hills. Located at the gates of San Donato in Poggio, it dates back to 989, mentioned in an act of donation to the Badia a Passignano. During the year 1000 it was an important center located between the dioceses of Florence, Siena and Fiesole, eventually becoming the capital of the League of San Donato and counting 16 suffragan churches.
After reconstruction in the 12th century, to which the facade also dates, it was then enriched with works of art in the 16th century, and altars were added in the chancel in the following century. Renovation work to restore it to its Romanesque structure began in the last century, culminating in the construction of the baptistery chapel in 1927.
Part of a fortified complex with a bell tower, it turns out to be one of the main examples of Romanesque architecture in the Florentine countryside. The pieve has three naves with semicircular apses without decoration. Sober and solemn as are the interiors in general punctuated by wooden trusses and rectangular pillars, embellished by the presence of a real artistic treasure housed in the baptistery: a baptismal font by Giovanni Della Robbia and a triptych by Giovanni del Biondo.
