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Wayside Shrines (Edicole) of Cannara

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Not all edicole are madonnas.
This cross at Pilone commemorates the execution of a priest.

[A modern shrine, a little over one meter on a side, of brick with a tile image of St. Francis preaching to the birds, with a projecting sloping tiled roof to keep off the rain. The shrine is in a beautiful small enclosure with a young oak to the left and three young cypresses to the right. It is a frontal view of the Franciscan shrine at Pian d'Arca near Cannara, Umbria (central Italy).]
Pian d'Arca
12/29/06 — 5 photos
[By the side of a one-lane road, barely seen framing the photo to our left, and slightly shaded by a small tree, a stuccoed brick building, the size of a very small pantry, about two and a half meters high and roofed with a symmetrical tile roof, the sides sloping at about 10 degrees. Behind it a flat field, fallow for the moment. The stucco is spalling here and there. It is completely open on one side, and thus forms a sort of wide door, only partly blocked by an elegant stone balustrade about 45 cm high, with two colonnettes on either side, and the space between the sides allowing access to the interior of the hut, in which an altar is ranged against the back wall, spread with a fresh cotton or linen cloth. In the wall above the altar table is a painting of the Virgin and Child. It is an 18c roadside shrine, or madonnina, at Selvetta, a few hundred meters from Cannara, Umbria (central Italy).]
Selvetta
2/18/13 — 2 photos

The frequent visitor to my site has heard me say it often: what I show you is just a hint at the riches to be seen in this particular pocket of Italy. And so it is here: there are a few other roadside shrines in the territory of Cannara, probably about twenty of them, some of which have been inventoried, photographed and commented by the good people at the Edicole Sacre project linked in the navigation bar below.

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