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Churches of Deruta

[image ALT: A rectangular majolica plaque depicting five kneeling women and at their head a man, also kneeling, all with rosaries, praying to a round image of the Virgin Mother and Child suspended on a tree, with a ribbon beneath it dated 1699. It is a votive plaque in the chapel of the Madonna dei Bagni near Deruta, Umbria (central Italy).]

For many, the most interesting church in Deruta is not to be found in the town itself, but a little ways S: the walls of the chapel of the Madonna dei Bagni are covered with well over a hundred often beautiful votive plaques of the local majolica, many of them telling or at least hinting at a story, and some dating back to the 17c, like this one. PGR stands for Per Grazie Ricevute — For Graces Received.

S. Francesco

Madonna delle Piagge

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Outlying Churches

Pontenuovo

You should not get the idea that the four churches so summarily represented here constitute anything like all the old churches in the town and its surrounding territory: there are over a dozen of them. I don't know the area as well as I could, and I haven't seen most of them: for one thing, each of the frazioni has its own church; among which I especially regret not having seen the Madonna del Ranuccio in Fanciullata, notable for its particularly beautiful fresco by Bartolomeo Caporali (1459) — I may have missed it, but you should not.

I do expect to expand this site at some point; stay tuned.

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