The building of today's structure dates back to the seventeenth century in late Renaissance style, on the ruins of an earlier church. On the facade in the Baroque style, is a bas-relief dating from 1671 depicting the Penitent Magdalene and the donor.
The interior has three naves divided by eight columns of Carrara marble from,according to some sources, the church of Santa Maria Assunta in the town of Luni.In the right aisle, the third altar is a bas-relief preserved from the early sixteenthcentury, depicting the Crucifixion with the Virgin and the holy women, in the chapel at the head of the nave there is the painting of the Calvary attributed to the painterPieter Brueghel the Younger.
In the apse are preserved sculptures of the Madonna and Child Enthroned withsnow on either side, the effigies of the Magdalene and St. John the Evangelist. On the left side of the chancel, the painting of the Crucifixion, originally attributed to the painter Anthony van Dyck, could instead be the work of a follower of Genoa.
In the left aisle, the third altar, you can see the canvas of the painter DomenicoSuffrage Fiasella while the side is the relief of the Madonna and Child with the bas-relief of St. Bartholomew, St. Stephen and St. Jerome, the two sculptures are dated1772, the first and the second from 1667.
The Via Francigena
The Via Francigena was born, as a manifestation of the renewed Christian spirituality, around the end of the first millennium.
represented in this area the most important European crossroads of so-called"major pilgrimages", ie the network of routes that led to the most important places,like Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
represented in this area the most important European crossroads of so-called"major pilgrimages", ie the network of routes that led to the most important places,like Jerusalem, Rome and Santiago de Compostela in Galicia.
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