Santa Lucia is a

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church located in the town of

Guardea Guardea is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 km south of Perugia and about 30 km west of Terni. Among the churches is the parish church of Santi Pietro e Cesareo and the ...

province of Terni The Province of Terni ( it, Provincia di Terni) is the smaller of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising one-third of both the area and population of the region. Its capital is the city of Terni. The province came into being ...

, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church was built at the site of an aedicule located at an intersection of roads. The church was built over the ages, with a final construction in the 19th century. The apse fresco, depicting ''Christ in Glory with the Madonna and St Joseph and the marriage ring'', while below are Saints Agnes, Lucy, Francis of Assisi, Sebastian, and kneeling the donor D. Salvatore Luzi, was completed in 1890 by

Domenico Bruschi Domenico Bruschi (13 June 1840 – 19 October 1910) was an Italian painter and educator. Bruschi also designed tapestries, Renaissance revival wooden furniture, sculptures in stucco and stained glass windows. Bruschi served as the chair of Orname ...

. In the background is a view of Guardea at the time.Comune of Gardea
tourism office.

References

Churches in the province of Terni 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy {{Italy-church-stub