San Sebastiano is a small,

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-style,

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church located on Viale dei Cipressi in

Bolgheri Bolgheri () is a central Italian village and hamlet (''frazione'') of Castagneto Carducci, a municipality (''comune'') in the province of Livorno, Tuscany. in 2011 it had a population of 131. History First mentioned in 1075, in a papal bull by ...

, a village in the municipality of

Castagneto Carducci Castagneto Carducci () is a (municipality) in the Province of Livorno in the Italian region of Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Livorno. It is named after the poet Giosuè Carducci, who spent there some years ...

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, Tuscany, Italy.

History

This brick church was erected in the late 19th century, and has a portal with fragments of a mural depicting ''Ecce Homo''. The mouldings and the cross atop the tympanum are stone. Above the entrance is the crest of the

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; the church contains family tombs. The interior apse is frescoed with a Madonna and child. The remainder of the church has floral and geometric decorations.Regione Toscana
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References

19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Gothic Revival church buildings in Italy Churches in the province of Livorno {{italy-church-stub