San Giovanni Battista Decollato, Montemurlo

The pieve church has an unfinished brick facade with a 15th-century portico. A single nave with lateral altars is now lit by 18th-century windows. The church houses an altarpiece depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints (1522) by Francesco Granacci; another Madonna and Saints (1590) by Giovanni Stradano; a Virgin of the Rosary and Saints (1609) by Matteo Rosselli, and a canvas by Giacinto Fabbroni. The presbytery has a venerated silver crucifix from the 14th century. The Story of the Crucifix (circa 1593) was depicted in frescoes by Giovanni da Prato on the counterfacade above the portal.^[1] The adjacent oratory once housed a gonfalone painted by Stradano.^[2]