Cappuccini’s Holy Cross Church

Cappuccini’s Holy Cross Church

Church

Suggestive observation point with a view of the Nestore valley, the hills and the edge of the lake behind the village of Panicale and the Castle of Montalera.
From 1870 it became a sepulchral-cemetery church, while in the fourteenth century it was dedicated to the Holy Cross, adapted to a conventual church starting from 1535 by the Capuchin Friars. Chosen, not surprisingly, as a place of meditation and prayer, the Church has returned to life after decades of neglect thanks to an important restoration, completed in 2009. The new bell of the fourteenth-century bell tower is tuned to the note A and entitled to Dialogue, as a means of closeness and peace between the peoples of the Earth.
The beautiful facade is anticipated by a large porch decorated with red bricks.

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Panicale