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Fiuggi. Church of San Biagio

Fiuggi. Church of San Biagio

This church of San Biagio dedicated to the patron saint of Fiuggi, is the oldest church in Fiuggi and was built before 1000 by the Benedictine monks of Subiaco.

In the seventeenth century it was restored and enlarged in the Baroque style.

Inside is a fresco of the thirteenth century Giotto school representing the "Madonna and Child".

The stone of holy water font was made from the capital of a Roman column, from the Villa of Nero at Subiaco.

Also among the paintings "Madonna and Child with St. Francis and St. Augustine" by Giuseppe Cesari (1568-1640), called Cavalier d'Arpino.


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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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