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Church of San Lorenzo Maggiore

inside of a cloister with colonnade, trees and a well in the centre
Cloister

This church was erected in the second half of the 13th century on the site where the 6th-century early-Christian Basilica stood. The Latin cross interior has a single nave with side chapels and a tie-beamed ceiling. The apse, which was designed by French architects, has a splendid ambulatory from which a series of chapels radiate off.

One of these chapels is the Barrile Chapel with Scenes of the life of the Virgin Mary by an unknown Neapolitan painter of the school of Giotto. A funeral monument of particular interest in the area of the apse is dedicated to Catherine of Austria, the work of the sculptor Tino di Camaino. Some of the walls of the right-hand transept are decorated with 14th-century frescoes by Montano d'Arezzo. Signs of other alterations made in the 17th and 18th centuries are seen in the third chapel to the right of the nave with polychrome marbles by Cosimo Fanzago and, on the external façade, by Ferdinando Sanfelice.