Sant'Alessandro a Giogoli, Romanesque church in Giogoli, Scandicci, Italy

Sant'Alessandro a Giogoli is a three-nave basilica ending in a semicircular apse, set among the Compagnia, the canonica with cloister, and farm buildings that incorporate a medieval tower. Its facade of ivory limestone blocks laid in courses keeps the original Romanesque masonry, and the tribune shows large sandstone blocks marking the width of the earlier church. The bell tower has at least three building phases, its top storey added in the 18th century.

First mentioned in 1005 as "plebs sancti Alexandri sitam Jugulo", the church stood on the via Volterrana as a bishop's stronghold controlling the suburban territory alongside the fortified centre of Monteramoli. A bull of Gregory VIII dated 6 November 1187 confirmed to the parish priest Guido privileges granted by Lucius III and Bishop Ranieri, including the right to collect tithes and appoint the rectors of nine dependent churches. A document of 25 April 1275 records an external baptistery dedicated to St John, and from 1263 a cloister. Restored 1944-1947 by the architects Morozzi and Crudeli after wartime bombing brought down the 18th-century ceiling.

The name Giogoli likely comes from gioghi, yokes, perhaps referring to the low hills. The Buondelmonti family were the church's official patrons from 1519. In the counterfacade are Pietro Pertichi's Samaritan Woman at the Well and Baptism of Christ; the right transept holds Francesco Manetti's Annunciation, St Joseph and St Francis.

The pieve stands on the via Volterrana in a dominant position above Giogoli, in the municipality of Scandicci. The facade faces the road, with the Compagnia on the left and the canonica with its cloister and medieval tower on the right. The crypt is reached by two flights of stairs around the last pillars; the presbytery above it is slightly raised.

The 1393 relief-carved tomb slab of parish priest Baldo Naselli lies in front of the altar. The crypt below the raised presbytery is split into three naves by four monolithic columns, two octagonal and two round, reached by two stairways around the last pillars.