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There are two churches in S. Venanzo: the modern parish church, and the 14c church of the Madonna Liberatrice that we see here. Small, quiet, much reworked and stuccoed so as to be barely distinguishable from the houses next to it in the background, it is easily passed by. Yet this is where the history is, and the oldest art to be seen in town: the 15c fresco of Our Lady of Deliverance over the main altar that gives its name to the church.
Unfortunately, the church was firmly closed when I passed thru. Pending another stay in Umbria, then, here is the door (late 19c or early 20c) — as far as I got:
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