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The itinerary then heads towards the territory of Florence, going through the Acciaiuoli Square in Galluzzo and then the via del Podestà. In this ancient street at number 173, on the protective wall of a house, there is an ample tabernacle (24) with a polychrome plaster statue of the Immaculate Conception. At the crossing with Via del Portico, on the wall that encloses the garden of the San Lucia church there is a niche (25) with terracotta statue of Maria Madre Addolorata. Walking down the via del Podestà we can see the church and the convent of “Santa Maria della neve al Portico” (26). The monastery dates back to the XIV century. The church was built in 1560 and houses a painting by Pier Dandini depicting the Virgin between Saint Austin and Saint Monica and a wooden crucifix (1350). The chronicle written in 1711 tells us that the procession, following the tradition, stopped in this church to allow the Reverend mothers to pay tribute to the Image. After that at the villa dè Corboli, the cortege met the Prince Gian Gastone de’ Medici with his court.
In the same street at number 78 we can see a niche (27) in the wall of a house with a polychrome terracotta bas-relief “The Assumption of the Virgin”. Next, at the crossing with via Martellini, we can see a tabernacle (28) in the wall of a villa with a ceramic bas-relief of the bust of the Virgin with Child. Another niche (29) is in Via del Podestà 10 in the wall of a house. It contains a stone high-relief of the Virgin with Child.
Then the itinerary heads towards Via Senese. At number 167, in the wall of a house, there is a niche (30) which has at its centre an unworked terracotta of the Virgin with Child. At number 132, in the wall of a house, there is an aedicule (31) in pietra serena with a small medallion, which is made of unworked terracotta, with the seated Virgin. On her lap there is a cushion on which The child is resting his feet.
The via Senese climbs straight up to the XIV-century Convent of San Gaggio (32). The 1711 chronicles document the arrival of the procession at this convent at dusk, “here the tabernacle enters the church of the nuns amongst a great crowd of people. The image stays in the church that is open while the nuns sing the psalms and the confraternities pray. At dawn a mass was celebrated in front a continuously growing crowd”. The last tabernacle (33) we find in via Senese has a peculiar structure. It has the shape of a canopy whose drapery includes an elegant central brick with the Madonna del latte, made of glazed terracotta. It was made in the XIX century by the Manifattura Cantagalli, who owned a brickworks nearby. This terracotta is a faithful copy of an original work by Andrea della Robbia.
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