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San Giacomo Nuova, Livo

The seventeenth-century parish church in the centre of Livo, with its Baroque altars and the altarpiece by Pietro Novelli brought by emigrants back from Sicily: the Immaculate Conception with Saint Rosalia, beside the Death of Saint Joseph and Luigi Tagliaferri's glory of Saint James.

Visit duration
10–20 min
Booking
Not required
Area
Upper Lake
The new church's bell tower rising from the woods on the slope, with the old church of San Giacomo further off, among green mountains.LauraPiatti · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The new church's bell tower rising from the woods on the slope, with the old church of San Giacomo further off, among green mountains.

LauraPiatti · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

San Giacomo Nuova is the seventeenth-century church in central Livo, which took over as parish church from the old building in 1699.

The single nave has side chapels and Baroque altars. In the first chapel on the left, Pietro Novelli's altarpiece of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Rosalia is an ex-voto from emigrants returning from Sicily. Saint Joseph's chapel holds Luigi Tagliaferri's Death of Saint Joseph; near the side entrance is Andrea Carrera's Annunciation, following Titian's model. The polychrome marble high altar of 1734 holds a polychrome wooden statue of Saint James, patron of both churches. Tagliaferri also painted two scenes from Christ's life and the Glory of Saint James on the choir vault.

  • Pietro Novelli's altarpiece dates from 1629 and shows Saint Rosalia and the Immaculate Conception interceding against the plague.
  • The church is built of bare, unplastered stone and faces the main square of Livo.
  • Just outside the village, the old parish church of San Giacomo holds 23 frescoes of the Madonna and Child.

Highlights

  • Andrea Carrera's Annunciation
  • The high altar of 1734 and the statue of Saint James

Getting there

  • It is in the centre of Livo. You come up from Gravedona on provincial road 4 towards Peglio and Livo; there is also the C118 bus from Dongo.
The church's stone façade on the square, with its doorway and a pale sky.Kaitu · CC0

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