Church of San Leonardo and San Quirico, Vernio
A church built on thirteenth-century foundations and remodelled repeatedly
The church of San Leonardo and San Quirico in Vernio has a squat stone bell tower and a pointed roof with sawtooth brick edging; the façade, meanwhile, is the result of interventions from the 1920s.
A single nave is found inside, with wooden trusses overhead, decorated with neogothic patterning. The main altar, an isolated stone edifice, is a modern work made to look neogothic. On the left wall of the chorus there hangs a canvas painted by Gregorio Pagani in 1597, depicting the Madonna of the Rosary with Saints, while the right wall has an eighteenth century painting from the Florentine school showing the Flight of Saint Joseph. A Robbian-style majolica relief, depicting the Madonna with Child and a young St John the Baptist, is inserted in the middle of a painting from the early eighteenth century.
