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Church of St Domenico

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With its impressive proportions, the monumental church (completed in 1424) has a wide aisle less structure. On the left side is the bell tower, and nearby, a building which displays three brickwork arches on octagonal stone columns from the fourteenth-century baptistery. The great door is very precious. The impact with the wide interior space is severe and involving with a trussed roof and tall polygonal columns that hold up the apse's cross vaults. It is decorated with several fifteenth-century frescoes. The presbytery's choir is also very beautiful. In the votive Chapel for War Hero's it is important to note frescoes from the fourteenth century based on the Senese style representing the Crucifixion The nearby sixteenth century altar housed, until the 1693, Raffaello's beautiful " Mond Crucifixion " painted in 1503 for the Gavari Family and presently at the National Gallery in London. The main altar shows the Beata Margherita's sarcophagi (1287/1320); the apse, houses an elegant choir with 26 stalls dating back to 1435.