On the road every woman in every doorway plaits straw with rapid fingers just as if we were in Bedfordshire.

Impruneta is famous for its new terra-cotta vessels and its ancient della Robbias.

For in the church is some of Luca's most exquisite work--an altarpiece with a frieze of aerial angels under it, and a stately white saint on either side, and the loveliest decorated columns imaginable; while in an adjoining chapel is a Christ crucified mourned by the most dignified and melancholy of Magdalens.

Andrea della Robbia is here too, and here also is a richly designed cantoria by Mino da Fiesole.

The village is not in the regular programme of visitors, and Baedeker ignores it; hence perhaps the excitement which an arrival from Florence causes, for the children turn out in battalions.