St.Donato

    St. Donato was the second bishop of Arezzo who preached and converted thousands of pagans from Arezzo  and the whole of Tuscany. But his intense work of evangelization came in conflict with the totalitarianism of the state. So he was made a martyr. There is a legend in town about this, saying St. Donato  was publicly beheaded on the top of the hill (where you can now find the Cathedral) on 7^th August 301. His head started to roll down the hill and stopped exactly where now the Pieve is. For this reason many centuries later the Pieve was built there as aethernal memory of this fact.

In 1346 two goldsmiths of the town made this splendid gold-plated bust which can still be admired in the crypt of the Pieve.

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