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Wayside Shrines of Italy

[image ALT: The head of a veiled, crowned and haloed woman. She is the Virgin Mary, and it is a detail of a roadside shrine, or madonnina, in Castagnola, Umbria (central Italy).]
Umbria
7/11/12 — 32 edicole

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[image ALT: A flat ceramic niche, maybe 25 cm tall, depicting the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus, affixed to a decaying wall. It is an edicola or wayside shrine in Ostia, Lazio (central Italy).]
Ostia (Lazio)
2/22/07 — 1 edicola
[image ALT: A relief carving of the head and shoulders of a mother and her baby. It is a detail of a depiction of the Madonna and Child on a roadside shrine, or madonnina, in Lucrezia, Marche (central Italy).]
Lucrezia (Marche)
2/7/07 — 1 edicola
[image ALT: zzz. It is a view of a wayside shrine to Virgin Mary in L' Aquila, Abruzzo (central Italy).]
L' Aquila (Abruzzo)
4/10/09 — 1 edicola
[image ALT: A bit of rudely stuccoed stone wall with part of a brick arch and its wooden door, but mostly, on the right, a niche, about 30 cm square, with a plaster medallion of the Madonna and Child surrounded by stylized flowers and vines. It is a madonnina, or wayside shrine to the Virgin Mary, on a garage in the village of Pierle in Tuscany (central Italy).]
Pierle (Tuscany)
5/27/05 — 2 edicole
[image ALT: A path thru two steep rock faces some 10 meters tall. The rock face on the left has fallen over the path, and is precariously held in place by the other. A grilled niche in it includes a fresco, apparently of St. Joseph. It is an edicola, or wayside shrine, in the Via Cava S. Giuseppe, near Pitigliano, Tuscany (central Italy).]
Pitigliano (Tuscany)
2/22/07 — 2 edicole

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