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The church as I first came upon it, unprepared; see my brief diary account. |
About 2 km SE of Città della Pieve along the SS 71, a highway that will take you to Monteleone d'Orvieto and Ficulle (in 4 and 20 km respectively) — and Orvieto and Viterbo if you stick with it long enough — you'll come across this little brick compound: from far away it doesn't look like much, not even like a church, since in the Italian countryside one sees many little clumps of housing like this with a belfry poking up from the roof, that are most often no longer churches at all.
In the better guidebooks though, the Madonna della Sanità — Our Lady of Good Health — is summarily noted as an old hermitage; the impression I got from her current custodian is that there was a hermit here within living memory.
[ 1 page, 5 photos ] As usual, mind you, I hadn't read those guidebooks, so it's a good thing I kept my eyes open and looked closer at the exterior: one of the advantages of seeing a country on foot is that you inevitably pay a bit more attention to what you see; in a car whizzing by at 50 miles an hour I wouldn't have seen a thing. |
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[ 1 page, 4 photos ] I was lucky with the interior as well: most rural churches are quite closed, even when there is a house attached, as here. The chapel holds maybe twenty worshippers, but is worth seeing; and thanks to the kindness of the people who live here, we all get a peek. |
Having seen this little chapel, I continued my walk to Montegabbione, not without a final look behind me:
Looking NW: from the little hill you will get a view of Città della Pieve, about 1½ km away to the north. |
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