Piansano. Church of San Bernardino of Siena

Devotion to St. Bernardino of Siena came to Piansano with the Tuscan settlers in the sixteenth century who immediately wanted to build a church on the site of a previous religious building.

This church was then completely demolished and rebuilt around 1750 in the most impressive form and it was embellished with beautiful frescoes of the Viterbo school.

The present church has a single nave with six side chapels, in one of which is preserved the ancient canopy of gilded wood with the statue of the saint that is carried in procession on the day of the patron saint.


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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