The current church of St Bartholomew the Apostle dates back to 1854-57, when it was built to replace an ancient romanesque church, seriously damaged by an earthquake of 1846.
Inside, next to the entrance portal, the fourteenth-century wooden statue of the Madonna di Rupecava, a work attributed to Andrea Pisano. The statue, carved in a single piece except for the arms and the Child, was originally placed in the ancient hermitage of Sancta Maria ad Martyres, known as Rupecava ("Empty rock"), located on the hills above Ripafratta and now in ruins. The Madonna and the hermitage are the object of particular devotion in the whole territory.

On the right wall inside the church is the tombstone of the young Matteo Gambacorti, pisan noble died and buried in Ripafratta in 1370, and the foundation stone of the original romanesque church, dating back to 1326, with the names of the workers who built it.

The high altar is a nineteenth-century work, as well as the balustrades in marble of Siena that close the presbytery. In the choir, on the wall, a large nineteenth-century painting depicting the Madonna with Child and Saints.

The left wall houses a modern portrait of Blessed Lorenzo Da Ripafratta, a Dominican, belonging to the Da Ripafratta family. According to the legend, Lorenzo was born right inside the Fortress in 1373. A traditional story tells us how the vocation of Lorenzo happened: little more than a child, he was playing on the square of Ripafratta when a carriage suddenly stopped in front of him. A nun came down - who was later known to be Saint Catherine of Siena -, looked at him and without saying a word caressed him and then left. Lorenzo became an important figure in the Dominican order, of which he was also general vicar. He is buried in the church of San Domenico in Pistoia, where he died in 1456. He was beatified by Pius IX on 4 April 1851, and his memory is celebrated on September 27th.

The present bell tower still reveals its original military role: in fact, it was probably one of the village's defense towers. A second tower was the Tower-Gate, which closed the road and access to the village near the river: it survived until WWII, but was then blown up by German troops in retreat in 1944.

The small square is the heart of the village. It used to house a large stone column: the "berlina", or the public pillory. During WWII, the column was accidentally shot down by an American tank.

On the square there are other buildings of historical value, such as the "Palazzo della Dogana" (old customs building), the Palazzo De Virte and, a little further on, the residence of the Podestà with the nearby prisons, marked by two engraved stones with the Medici coat of arms. The suggestive and most ancient alleys are: via di Sopra, vicolo del Campanile, and via Silvestro Lega, at the end of which there are traces of another old church, with its beautiful white marble facade, now converted into a home.