San Carlo, formerly Sant'Ilario is a small Romanesque and

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church on Viale San Carlo and intersection with Via Cesia and della Piana, below the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio, in the center of

Todi Todi () is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) of the province of Perugia (region of Umbria) in central Italy. It is perched on a tall two-crested hill overlooking the east bank of the river Tiber, commanding distant views in every direction. ...

, province of Perugia, region of

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, Italy.

History

The church is ancient, and was previously known as Sant'Ilario. By 1112 we have documentation of a church belonging to the Benedictine

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. A stone at the left of the entrance recalls a consecration in 1249. In 1623, the church was granted by the bishop to a Confraternity of San Carlo, where it gained its present name. The austere stone rectangular layout of a single nave, with few windows is accounted for the early Romanesque construction. In the following century, the few added decorations, including the two story sail-shape bell-casing with mullioned arches as well as the small rose window, exemplify gothic architectural details from the late 12th century. The interior is equally sparse, and best lit through the rose window by the rising sun in the morning. Inside there is a damaged fresco of the ''Madonna della Misericordia'' by

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, and two canvases depicting ''San Carlo Borromeo'' and ''Sant'Ilario''. The latter was painted (1640) by

Bartolomeo Barbiani Bartolomeo Barbiani (1596–1645) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Umbria. He was born in Montepulciano, but appears to have painted mainly in Umbria. He was a pupil of Antonio Circignani (Pomarancio). He is documented as ...

.Visitodi website
Todi tourism website sponsored by the Region of Umbria. Proceeding further north along Via Cesia is the

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, built in 1241 as an public urban drinking fountain by the podesta of Todi, Scarnabecco di Fagnani. Destroyed in the past by a landslide, it was reconstructed in the 19th-century.

References

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