A small church of the cerchia antica, S. Cecilia was among the first parishes created in the early twelfth century. It was demolished in the mid-fourteenth century during the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and moved to face the Piazza dei Malespini, which came to be known as the Piazza Santa Cecilia. This orientation is visible in Stefano Buonsignori's map (no. 45) and Stefano Rosselli described the church based on a sepoltuario dated 1580, prior to the church's radical reorientation in 1627. The church was secularized in 1783, and its former buildings were transformed in the 1870s into apartments, shops and the famous cafe-chocolatier Rivoire. Traces of the building are still visible from Piazza Santa Cecilia.
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| Database ID | 53 |
| parrocchia di Santa Cecilia | 1115 to 1783 f
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| G. Fanelli, Firenze, architettura e città , atlante | pp. 9-10 |
| ASF, Manoscritti, 624, Rosselli, Sepoltuario Fiorentino, 1657 (copy) | pp. 646-647 |
| G. Richa, Notizie istoriche delle chiese fiorentine | vol. 2, pp. 58-62 |
| R. B. Litchfield, Online Gazetteer | sq. 48, no. 10 |
