Chiesa di San Bernardino

The Church of San Bernardino is located in the hamlet of Dodge Montegallo. The Church is a seventeenth-century building with a rectangular plan that presents within the Tuscan columns of tufa high on high pedestals divide the hall into three naves, but the nave which is thus not be girded by two longitudinal walls that open arches of communication with the aisles: the columns of the church Dodge supporting three partitions that front are three arches on each naves that support against a flat ceiling set in section imperceptible arc. A molded frame and is connected to two corner pilasters decorate the sides of the forum and the wings of the presbytery. There are also two architectural elements from more ancient reality. The first is the portal of the fourteenth-century facade, decorated on the ring by a frieze of palmettes. The second element is a relief re-used on the left side of the grandstand. The sculpture represents a male figure and a female figure intent to support the oriflamme of St. Bernardine of Siena. Stylized floral motifs on the corners complete the composition. In place of the terminal part it is observed a molded frame which is also recycled. Original is the inclusion of figures by way ‘caryatid with a supple pose that suggests an elaborate movement of the garments. The work dates back to centuries. XVI, and it is unrelated to the ways of the sculpture of the Acquasanta.