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Church · Riardo (CE)

Church of San Leonardo in Riardo

  • Visit: about 20 min
Pictured: Riardo · Alessandro Blasi from Rieti, Italy · CC BY 2.0 · resized

Small church in Riardo, once an Augustinian convent, with a Catalan portal, 14th-century frescoes and Roman-era finds.

The Church of San Leonardo in Riardo has a layered history: founded in the Early Christian period as the Church of San Paolo, much smaller than today's, in the mid-13th century it became an Augustinian convent dedicated to St Leonard. What remains of the complex is a small cloister with a well and the stairs leading to the old cells.We like the Catalan Gothic portal and, inside, the fragments of 14th-century frescoes showing the face of Christ and St Francis. We suggest also looking at the Roman funerary cippi, including a rare marble slab, and the unusual black crucifix.

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