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[image ALT: A thin square stone pillar, about 5 m high, surmounted by a small niche domed and crowned with a metal cross. The pillar stands on much larger low stone base or platform. It is a wayside shrine near S. Felice di Pietralunga, Umbria (central Italy).]

If you walk from the tiny hamlet of S. Felice to the church of the Madonna delle Grazie that constitutes the entirety of Castelfranco along the old medieval or Roman road, now a mere path, thru an area of scrub and low forest, you will come across this sturdy wayside shrine.

This edicola, to give it its Italian name,

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WAYSIDE
SHRINES:

Edicole
of Umbria

Edicole
of Italy

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Pietralunga

Umbria

Italy

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