Church of San Michele in Antraccoli

Of the church of San Michele di Antraccoli, in Lucca, no traces of the early medieval construction are visible today. Considerable parts of the twelfth-century building are, though, and it was around this that a village started to develop. In that period, the church was smaller than it is today and probably simply consisted of a single nave with a bell tower on the south side. Remains of the original entrance and walls can still be seen.

Only later was the building enlarged to its present-day proportions. Its third construction phase took place between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. During this period, the height of the façade and the northern side were both increased; the older windows were also substituted with new, larger ones.

In the eighteenth century a bell tower was built on the north side of the church, since the medieval one had been incorporated into the rectory building, which still stands today, on the opposite side.