The facade in Corso Italia, the apse in Piazza Grande. The Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Arezzo is the link between two of the most important and lived-in places in the city. Built starting from the year 1000, this Romanesque parish church presents itself in all its magnificence with a façade with three portals. We all immediately look at the Parish Church with our nose up, because we cannot help but be fascinated by its bell tower, called "with a hundred holes" due to the mullioned windows, once ten on each side, which make it unique.

On the rear part of the church there is the large semicircular apse: small single-lancet windows illuminate the interior of the crypt where the 1346 reliquary bust in gilded silver with the relics of San Donato Vescovo, the Patron Saint of Arezzo, is kept.

All you need to do is cross its threshold to admire, inside, a masterpiece of fourteenth-century painting: the Polyptych with the Virgin and Child and Saints John the Evangelist, Donatus, John the Baptist and Matthew commissioned to Pietro Lorenzetti in 1320, without counting the beautiful Chapel of the SS. Sacramento, where delicate pastel-colored frescoes by the master Luigi Ademollo, frame a sweet fifteenth-century statue of the Madonna in polychrome terracotta.