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Citerna

Church of St Francesco

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S. Francesco is a church-museum, thanks to the large number of works of art that have remained preserved. Built at the beginning of the sixteenth century, it has a Latin cross design, with nine richly decorated altars. There are paintings by Simone Ciburri, a fresco by Luca Signorelli and his school (1550), a Deposition by Pomarancio, some paintings by Raffaellino del Colle and a collection of sacred canonicals finely worked in silk and gold. In the left transept you can admire a wooden crucifix in Byzantine style dating back to the end of the thirteenth century. Behind the high altar there are 25 majestic wooden walnut choir stalls and a monumental lectern that were built in the sixteenth century. Above the choir stalls is the Madonna and Child, which has recently been attributed to the young Donatello that enrichens the small museum of the church. It is a polychrome terracotta statue, 110 cm high, dated around 1415, it is currently being restored in Florence along with another sculpture from the Robbia school.