COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE “IL FULIGNO” VIA FAENZA 48, FIRENZE

The Educatorio of the Fuligno has a great artistic and monumental, rich value as it is of frescoes, furnishings of age, paintings, vestments and collections of gold and sacred silver. A rich cultural patrimony in great recovered part thanks to the restoration of 2000, that it has chosen to conserve every trace of the varied events which the complex was subordinate during the centuries.Between the numerous works, they remain to make the best impression of oneself frescoes it the late gotici of Bicci di Lorenzo and baroque the perspective broken sontuosi anchor of the sixteenth century church, rigorous geometric order of chiostro large and the Cenacolo Peruginesco of the refectory, today directly managed from the Supervising.

The building draws own origins from the romitorio of Sant'Onofrio, a shelter for hermits become at the beginning of the 14th century a monastero of Agostiniane nuns and then donated, approximately a century after, to the nuns of the monastero of Sant'Anna di Foligno, from which drift exactly the current name.Consecrated in 1429, the building was embellished and widened with a dormitory and a refectory, in order to accommodate widowed women but also girls waiting for wedding or of consacration.In 1803 it was acquired by the napoleonic administration  and transformed in a lay conservatory of education for orphaned or poor children. From 1853 it returned to being newly managed from the monks daughters of the Charity before, nuns of the Immaculate one then that you they remained until 1976.