Church of Santa Maria del Tiglio. Gravedona.
The church of Santa Maria del Tiglio is a sacred building located in Gravedona, in the province of Como. It is a national church stands on what can be called the "sacred area" of Gravedona, including the nearby parish church of San Vincenzo, the latter characterized by a remarkable Romanesque crypt. Probably this was a place of worship already in Roman times (in the two churches are recovered materials of ancient times) and the church may have risen on the site of a pagan temple. It is mentioned for the first time as a baptistery, dedicated to St. John the Baptist: in the Annals of Fulda, documents of an ancient abbey in West Germany, we find a text, from 823, which speaks of a miraculous fresco painted in this church, depicting the Adoration of the Magi, which for two days shone with its own more :
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