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Santa Marta, Bellano

The confraternity's oratory on Bellano's square, with Gothic arches, the Baptist's statue of 1589 above the doorway and the dome structure decorated in 1582 with prophets, sibyls, angels and saints.

Visit duration
15–30 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Lecco Branch
The stone church with its spired bell tower and octagonal lantern on the roof, on the square with cars and mountains behind.Torsade de Pointes · CC0
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The stone church with its spired bell tower and octagonal lantern on the roof, on the square with cars and mountains behind.

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Why go

Santa Marta is a church on the square of the same name in Bellano, beside Santi Nazaro e Celso, formerly home to the Disciplini confraternity.

Its façade retains the Gothic arches of an earlier building. Above the doorway's broken pediment stands the statue of the Baptist from 1589, when the confraternity joined the Archconfraternity of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. The octagonal structure enclosing the dome has stucco and frescoes completed in 1582. Prophets and sibyls fill the arches, the major prophets the pendentives, and Nazaro, Celso, Martha and Mary Magdalene the drum; the vault has allegories and angels with the symbols of the Passion. The bell tower probably dates from the seventeenth century, as do the wooden chancel and sacristy furnishings.

  • The dome structure painted in 1582, above Bellano's square.
  • The church next to Santi Nazaro e Celso, a few steps from the Orrido.

Highlights

  • The dome structure decorated in 1582 with prophets, sibyls and angels
  • The broken-pediment doorway with the Baptist of 1589
  • The Gothic arches of the façade

Getting there

  • On Piazza Santa Marta, in the centre of Bellano, on the same square as the provostal church; the station and landing stage are a few minutes' walk away.

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