The convent was built in the mid-15th century (around 1468) by the Dominican monks of Pistoia on the site where the ancient church of Saint Mary Magdalene, mentioned in a document dated 1284, probably stood. It was used as a hermitage until 1784, when it was sold to Ptolemies family, who used it as a private chapel. In 1928 it passed again to the Dominicans and then fell into a state of abandonment.
It consists of an oratory flanked by a single-storey house and graced by a simple arcade with eight arches on stone columns decorated with 15th century capitals. The fresco depicting ‘Mary standing, with clasped hands and open cloak, with two kneeling Dominican saints’, is still in the apse and it was venerated since ancient times (late 15th, early 16th century). The building interior, seriously degraded, has a single room with a barrel vault and walls embellished by pilasters.
