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| The Collegiate Church is also
dedicated to St. John the Baptist. It suddenly appears at the
end of the street with its spiral portal in plain Romanesque
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| Inside it, within the chapel in the right
cross vault, there is a crib by the Rustichino, a Siennese painter
of the 15th century. There is also an interesting wood Crucifix
dating back even to the 12th century and an Assumption of the
Virgin of the 14th century. An attentive visitor cannot but
continue his itinerary that will take him, beyond the Sun Gate,
to the Madonna of the Rose Church, being perhaps the most beautiful
one in Chianciano. Built on a central plan, even though it wasn't
finished, the church was constructed in the second half of the
16th century on a project by Baldassarre Lanci. It is certainly
a notable architectonic work for its sober harmony of line culminating
in an elegant dome. The name that has been given to the church
is explained by a painting inside it: a Madonna presenting a
rose to the Child, between the Saints John the Baptists and
Bartholomew. |
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