CHURCH AND CRYPT OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER

THE CHURCH

The church was built around 1500.

It belonged to a group of people who cared for the burial of the poor.

The poor were buried in the crypt or in the cemetery.

Today the cemetery has been transformed into Piazza San Sepolcro.

The church has only one room with a ceiling shaped like a barrel and side chapels.

The ceiling above the altar has the shape of a star.

In one chapel it is possible to admire the golden wood altar with the image of the Virgin of Mercy.

A baptismal font from the early Christian era was found in one room.

 

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THE CRYPT

The crypt is a room excavated under the church of the Holy Sepulcher.

It is formed by three rooms.

These rooms were used as burial places.

The walls of the crypt have paintings on them.

The most important painting shows Death as a skeleton holding a scythe.

On the scythe is a Latin writing meaning I spare no one.