Monumenti_&_Chiese_San

Foundation years for the temple and the convent, located beside on the north side built after different resuming efforts in 1771, are not known. However it seems that 1240 was the year of the foundation stone, as documented in an inscription that once existed, at the entrance portal inside the temple. However the date when the construction of the bell tower’s began is well known, this date goes back, according to the chronicles writer Anton di Nicolò, to 1425. The temple rises at the north east city border where its particular architectural pure design and great volume prevails among the rest of the buildings. The temple is entirely built with bricks; best seeing when looking at the north and south views of the building, as well as, on the two sections that make the central aisle and lateral sides The polygonal apse of the east side is very characteristic because it is adorned with single opening-arched windows and small circular windows. The bell tower is built on the first span of the left aisle and it is decorated with double opening-arched windows in both sides of the bell’s cell with a top formed out of a prismatic volume with an octagonal base. The temple’s façade does not follow the original gothic taste; its style changes and moves towards a neoclassic imprint. Within the temple’s façade an splendid portal, which goes back to the year 1604, is found; it is made with stone from Istria. The main entrance door, made out wood from fir and walnut tree, is considered contemporaneous to the portal just mentioned. The inner space is very well designed and executed (50 m long per 20 m wide), it is divided in three aisle with cruise vaulting roof type. The floor used for the choir is higher than the altitude’s floor of the three inner space aisle and is reserved to the sacred rite celebration. On the right aisle, a square chapel is found, known as Euffreducci capel, added to the main temple’s body in 1527, by the desire of Celenzia degli Oddi in memory of this son Ludovico, who died in the Tenna battle in the year 1520. With the pass of the centuries many restore and aesthetic changes were done, to both the convent and temple, these works had been done to keep pace with the changing times and customs. It was only in the XIX and XX century that the temple began to recapture the medieval look and basic structure that today attracts many tourists and faithful devoted persons to visit it.