Chiesa di San Iacopo e Santa Lucia

The Church of San Domenico in San Miniato is also recorded under its earlier dedication to Saints Jacopo and Lucia. Its unfinished brick façade faces Piazza del Popolo, while its history reaches back to a church consecrated in 1074.

Why it matters

The church and the former Dominican convent preserve the development of a religious site beyond San Miniato's early walls. The building is known today as San Domenico, but the dedication to Saints Jacopo and Lucia remains in ecclesiastical and heritage records.

What to notice

The plain brick façade remains unfinished, with the entrance portal as its principal completed feature. Inside, the church has a single Gothic nave and chapels decorated in the eighteenth century. The adjoining convent retains its loggiati and the former refectory, now part of the civic museum complex.

Context and history

Anselm of Baggio, bishop of Lucca, consecrated the church in 1074. It was enlarged during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and granted to the Dominicans in 1330. After the suppression of the convent, the parish retained the church while municipal uses occupied much of the former convent.