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Buongiorno Vitaleta
CAPPELLA DELLA MADONNA DI VITALETA
This small chapel nestled between fields and rows of cypress trees is dedicated to the Virgin Mary who once appeared to a shepherdess.
Despite its limited size and position lost in the fields of the Val d’Orcia, this little Chapel, nestled between two rows of cypress trees, has become an important feature of the best-known landscapes in the world. It rises in Vitaleta, near San Quirico d’Orcia, and was built on the extension site of an older tabernacle. For many years it was used as a place of worship to the simulacrum of the Virgin of the Consolation until, in 1553, it became home to a famous statue of the Virgin ascribable to Andrea della Robbia.
Source: parcodellavaldorcia.com
Buongiorno Vitaleta
CAPPELLA DELLA MADONNA DI VITALETA
This small chapel nestled between fields and rows of cypress trees is dedicated to the Virgin Mary who once appeared to a shepherdess.
Despite its limited size and position lost in the fields of the Val d’Orcia, this little Chapel, nestled between two rows of cypress trees, has become an important feature of the best-known landscapes in the world. It rises in Vitaleta, near San Quirico d’Orcia, and was built on the extension site of an older tabernacle. For many years it was used as a place of worship to the simulacrum of the Virgin of the Consolation until, in 1553, it became home to a famous statue of the Virgin ascribable to Andrea della Robbia.
Source: parcodellavaldorcia.com