(ANSA) - FLORENCE, OCTOBER 03 - The room with the excavations of the Church of San PierScheraggio opens to the public at the Uffizi after restoration, a place of worship which in the 16th century was incorporated into the Vasari complex and which now for the feast of San Francescod'Assisi (the death was October 3, 1226) is part of the divided path.
It will be possible to "walk" on the excavations on a crystal floor and admire a 14th century fresco depicting the Holy work by an unknown artist.
The homage to St. Francis continues on the museum's website with a virtual exhibition.
The director Eike Schmidt explains: "Opening San Pier Scheraggio is an event full of meanings if you think of the role of civic space it had in medieval times. And it is important that after almost two decades the fresco with St. Francis, an ancient image of the national saint, is visible again. in a state institution like the Uffizi. To celebrate the feast of the saint, we also dedicate a virtual exhibition to him, an opportunity to rethink the universal value of his message of love for creation ".
San PierScheraggio was a religious and civil reference of medieval Firenz, Dante Alighieri himself spoke there in public in 1300.
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