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Santa Maria Maggiore

TIME : 2016/2/18 21:33:20

Designed in a Romanesque-Gothic transitional style, the 16th-century frescoes in the apse of this church are perhaps the main reason to head inside; there's also an unusual stone ciborium (vaulted canopy over the altar) dating from the 9th century.