Canino. Church of the Holy Cross

Canino. Church of the Holy Cross

The church of the Holy Cross in Canino has a simple facade of late Renaissance style.

It has a beautiful Romanesque portal with Romanesque capitals and jambs decorated with flowers and leaves.

The church has a single aisle and inside there is the beautiful altarpiece of the Deposition of Christ executed in the sixteenth century by the Viterbo artist Monaldo Trofi.

The work is a copy of a concept of ​​Raphael.

The bell tower is a square tower in tuff blocks, called the Clock.

The tower is topped by a Baroque castle in wrought iron.

In a document of an apostolic visitation of 1594, it is said that the church belongs to a local Brotherhood associated the Arciconfraternita del Gonfalone of Rome.


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