Between the suggestive medieval views of Pergola, a great number of sacred buildings can be noted. Almost all of them have been restored to their original magnificence, like St. James’, also known as St. Lucy’s, after the statue of the saint moved here, or St. Andrew’s, flanked by the civic tower, which hosts St. Catherine’s mystic wedding, an enchanting painting by Claudio Ridolfi. A charming jewel, a beautiful union of painting, sculpture and baroque architecture was created in the XVII century Church of the Wise Men, thus named after the painting Adoration of the Wise Men by Aurelio Lomi, on the altar. It is a place of worship where sacred and profane join through the presence of eight chalk statues of prophets and sibyls, the latter being, according to the Church, priestesses belonging to the Christian history. One of the most ancient buildings in Pergola is the Santa Maria di Piazza church, dating from the XI Century, of whose original Romanic-Gothic design the portal with a pointed arch is left. Very interesting is the mid XV Century fresco discovered behind the altar and is fully deprived of its central part, which was destroyed to create a niche: only the face of the Christ was left. In the borough of dyers, after passing the peculiar centuryold house, marked by more than one hundred summers and winters, St. Mary of Dye’s appears, with its unmistakable octagonal dome and the late-baroque inside.
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