Pieve dei Santi Giusto e Clemente

A page from a sketchbook I carried while cycling in Tuscany, showing the Pieve dei Santi Giusto e Clemente in the small village of Casciano. It's fairly high up in a saddle between two hills, a short distance south of Siena.

All over Tuscany, tiny villages partook in the glory of the big cities by embellishing their churches with green pietre verde. No one in a place like Casciano could afford an entire polychrome facade like in Siena or Florence or Empoli, so they had to settle with just the voussoirs of the arch above the west window.