Plague Chapel, Malgrate

The one on Via Agudio, in Malgrate, dates from the seventeenth century and is one of the very few still standing; it is the last stop of the Manzoni itinerary. It is also called the chapel of the dead at the Crocetta. It is a small shrine on the street: a triangular pediment under a roof of curved tiles, granite columns at the sides, faded traces of painted decoration on the front and, in the middle, a wrought-iron grille for a door. Behind the grille are a small altar with a white cloth and a print of the Crucifixion, and on the shelves at the sides and along the cornice, the gathered bones and skulls.