Santa Croce Church

Built in 1642, the church features a red brick façade. The interior has a single nave, striking by the exuberant stucco ornaments characteristic of the Baroque era. In the centre of the high altar is the plaster group comprising the figure of the Virgin, St. Giovanni and Mary Magdalene, leaning towards a shrine above containing a wooden crucifix. The left altar, dedicated to the Madonna of Loreto, houses a carved wooden figure known as the Madonna Nera. The right altar, on the other hand, is dedicated to the Madonna of Canoscio, and houses a work by the 19th-century painter Ettore Penso. Lastly, we find a bas-relief slab called The Blood of the Redeemer, by Donatello and his workshop (1430), previously inserted in the entrance portal of the Oratory of the Madonna delle Nevi, later in the Church of Santa Flora e Lucilla and now  exhibited here together with a copy made in 1926 by Fulvio Corsini, a sculpture professor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Siena.