The Collegiate Church of Fucecchio, dedicated to San Giovanni Battista, stands in today’s Piazza Vittorio Veneto, on the site where the ancient parish church was built, established by the will of the Cadolingi counts. Already awarded the title of Collegiate, the ancient building was demolished at the end of the eighteenth century to make way for a new and larger construction. The main entrance can be reached both from Poggio Salamartano and from Piazza Vittorio Veneto via a wide stone staircase.
 

Inside, the Collegiate Church has a grandiose neoclassical Latin cross layout with side chapels. The remarkable plastic decorations and most of the furnishings, such as – in the first chapel on the right – the canvas with “Madonna and Child and two Saints” by Gaspero Martellini, the “Martyrdom of Saint Lucia” and “The Madonna del Rosario” by Pompeo Caccini, in the first chapel on the left – the “Madonna Enthroned with Child with Saints John the Baptist, Mark, Peter and Andrew”. Much venerated is the “Madonna di Piazza”, a marble high-relief depicting the Virgin and Child. Originally located on the corner of the former Palazzo di Cancelleria (Piazza Vittorio Veneto), the image was, according to tradition, a protector during the plague of 1630, receiving a dark spot on the face.

The fresco cycles by Antonio Domenico Gamberoni (1720) and Antonio Gajoni (1950-1960) are noteworthy. Other tables of significant artistic interest are now kept in the nearby Civic Museum. Under the main altar is the reliquary urn of San Candido, a work from the early 19th century, in carved and gilded wood, containing the remains of the town’s patron saint.