Massa dei Sabbioni

The small village of Massa dei Sabbioni is located halfway up the hill along the road that leads to the Cavriglia Natural Park and then to Radda in Chianti. Its origins are very ancient and Repetti remembers it as a farmhouse with a parish church dedicated to San Pietro, to which the underlying population of San Michele in Colle is annexed. The current settlement and road system have not changed the traditional historical organization of these territories characterized by sharecropper-type settlements connected to each other by paths and farm roads with numerous small residential areas arranged around the town.
The Massa farm constitutes the oldest nucleus. It was owned by the Florentine Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, founded in 1288 by Folco Portinari, the father of Dante's Beatrice.
In 1500, by will of Pope Leo Child between Saints Peter and Paul, a work by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1526) specially commissioned by the hospitalist Leonardo Buonafede; a Robbian-style tabernacle, perhaps from Buglioni's workshop which left various artistic testimonies in the area. Without a doubt the work that most characterizes this small church is the Miracle of the Snow, a canvas attributable to Matteo Rosselli (1578-1650), commissioned by the Company dedicated to the Madonna della Neve present in the church since 1621.