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naves. At the end of the central nave is the dome. Inside the first chapel on the left, inside a large 18th century marble altar, is the miraculous painted wooden statue of the
Madonna della Stella, probably a 13th-century French work. The frescoes on the vault were painted by Paolo Barbotti in 1851. The bell tower, dating back to the 13th century, was raised in the modern age.
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