Cappella di San Firmino - San Damiano Macra
Risalendo la Valle Maira, tra la Borgata Lottano e Chiaudieres, s'incontra una piccola cappella campestre: la Cappella di San Firmino.
Si tratta di una costruzione semplice, in stile romanico con ingresso preceduto da portico sorretto da due colonne e chiuso da cancellata.
L'absite tondo, in muratura nela parte inferiore e in pietra e mattoni a vista in quella superiore, è affiancato dal campanile.
La facciata principale della Cappella di San Firmino ha un modesto portone in legno e riporta degli affreschi.
E' dedicata a San Firmino, protettore di panettieri, fabbricanti di botti e commerciantidi vino ed invocato contro l’erisipela e lo scorbuto. Nella borgata viene festeggiato la seconda domenica di Luglio.
San Firminoo Chapel - San Damiano Macra
Going up the Valle Maira, between the Borgata Lottano and Chiaudieres, you meet a small rural chapel: the San Firmino Chapel.
It is a simple building, in Romanesque style with an entrance preceded by a portico supported by two columns and closed by a gate.
The round apse, in masonry in the lower part and in stone and exposed brick in the upper one, is flanked by the bell tower.
The main façade of the San Firmino Chapel has a modest wooden door and shows some frescoes.
It is dedicated to San Firmino, protector of bakers, manufacturers of barrels and wine merchants and invoked against erysipelas and scurvy. In the hamlet is celebrated on the second Sunday of July.
Going up the Valle Maira, between the Borgata Lottano and Chiaudieres, you meet a small rural chapel: the San Firmino Chapel.
It is a simple building, in Romanesque style with an entrance preceded by a portico supported by two columns and closed by a gate.
The round apse, in masonry in the lower part and in stone and exposed brick in the upper one, is flanked by the bell tower.
The main façade of the San Firmino Chapel has a modest wooden door and shows some frescoes.
It is dedicated to San Firmino, protector of bakers, manufacturers of barrels and wine merchants and invoked against erysipelas and scurvy. In the hamlet is celebrated on the second Sunday of July.
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