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Inside, the church consists of one largish room: you see about half of it here. To avoid sacrificing too much of the length of the worship space to the sacristy, a corner has been cut for access to it, and a blind corner provided on the other side for symmetry.
The focal point is not so much the altar as the small painting in its exuberant oval frame: it is
the Madonna delle Grazie, the late medieval work for which the church is named and may even have been built: Mary as Giver of Favors. The painting is surrounded by
several dozen ex‑votos
for graces received.
For a small country church, it's an elegant building. An octagonal cupola roofs the space, with Mary's monogram (an A and an M interlaced, for Ave Maria) in a 'glory' echoing the one we just saw around the painting of her. It's what I like best:
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