A chapel near Torre del Colle (PG)

The only useful thing I can say about this Umbrian chapel, I've already said — to my new friends as we toured the back-country around Bevagna: "Stop the car; that's a church." Someone had to holler, after all; cars have a momentum of their own and tend to possess their drivers!

I could easily have been wrong — but in this case I wasn't. What else would this one-room building be, out in the country by itself, its door decorated with crosses and a bell over the door? Peering in, the eye registered better than the camera could record: a bit of an altar; it's a church.

Now central Italy, after centuries of travelers, to say nothing of generations of local experts proud of their heritage, has come to be very well documented: somewhere out there a book will probably tell you what saint is honored here, and when the chapel was built, and maybe even by whom and why; but I know nothing about it except what I see: to judge from the characteristic oeil-de‑boeuf shape of the window, this is the work of the 17c to the 19c.

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