Chiesa di San Frediano in Cestello
Baroque church rebuilt with its entrance rotated to face the river, its facade left in bare exposed brick.
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This guide to Chiesa di San Frediano in Cestello in Florence starts with its bare brick facade and asks why it was never finished. It goes back to 1628, when Cistercian monks took over a flood-damaged convent on the site and hired architect Gherardo Silvani to rebuild it, then rejected his plan for where the entrance should face. The great flood of 1557 had already driven out the site's earlier tenants, and construction resumed under Giulio Cerruti in 1680.
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