Poggio Bustone. Sanctuary of San Giacomo (St James)

The sanctuary and the Convent of San Giacomo (St James) were built in places that hosted St. Francis of Assisi.

It is near the seventeenth-century church of Sacro Speco.

The monastery consists of a single nave fourteenth century church, a monastery dating from the thirteenth century, and a refectory. 

They are all decorated with frescoes of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Inside the church is a tablet, dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, depicting the Madonna della Grazie and Child with St. Joseph.

A seventeenth century fresco of the Poggio Bustone landscape flanked by St. Francis of Assisi and St. Anthony of Padua, between the two an unidentified pontiff.

A staircase in the monastery leads to the hermitage carved into the rock.
 


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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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