Nepi. Church of San Biagio

The church of San Biagio is one of the oldest buildings in the city of Nepi and already existed in 950.

The church has a single hall with a raised presbytery above the crypt.

A chapel on the right is covered with a cross vault with late Gothic decorations.

To the left is the remarkable votive temple dedicated to San Biagio that made Nepi the ''University of breeders of pigs” in the late fifteenth century.

The facade of the church is very simple and is enriched by an access portal composed from Roman ruins reworked in medieval times.

The jambs have phytomorphic (plant) decorations and the lintel is extracted from a late Imperial era sarcophagus.
 


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