Church of the Most Holy Annunciation

The Oratory of the Santissima Annunziata, also known as the 'Church of Mercy', already existed in the 14th century.
The Venerable Archconfraternity of Mercy, one of the oldest in Tuscany (which is still based here today) and the 'Spedale di Santa Maria del Ponte', which owned property and land including the oratory of S. Maria di Porta near Salto della Cervia (Porta, on the border with the current Province of Massa Carrara) along the nearby Via Francigena, depended on this church.
When Michelangelo Buonarroti stayed in Seravezza between 1518 and 1520, he almost certainly lived in a house next to the church.
Destroyed by the flood of 1885 and during the Second World War, it was rebuilt from scratch after the latter, although on the opposite side of the road to its original location.
In the loggia and on the façade, marble fragments are visible, among which the bas-relief of the Madonna with Child and Angels from the first half of the sixteenth century, attributed to the Renaissance sculptor from Carrara Francesco Del Mastro, and that of a doe from the Church of S. Maria della Cervia stand out.
There are also busts and plaques in memory of famous people born or lived in Seravezza, in particular Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Also noteworthy is the wooden copy of the Madonna del Soccorso. Inside, among other things, you can see the painting of the Annunciation, a work from the first half of the seventeenth century by Filippo Martelli, that of S. Vincenzo de' Paoli and the splendid canvas The Three Marys at the Sepulchre, a work by Pietro da Cortona, donated by the Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1833.
The oratory of S. Ansano is annexed to the church.