Description

The Church of Santa Giuliana stands in open countryside below the town of San Pellegrino.

It was served by Saint Benedict’s monks and by the chaplains of San Giovanni in Norcia. Originally dating back to the 15th/16th century, the exterior is very modest. It houses two Romanesque single-lancet windows on the left-hand side and a 16th century small bell gable, a recently reconstructed “transenna” on the façade and reclaimed Roman materials.

A Benedictine monk and a Madonna and Child are painted on the left-hand side, together with a fresco by a certain Carducci framed by a Greek fret in the intrados, depicting the Madonna of the Rosary (16th century). The back wall has a Christ in Pietà and the remains of a Madonna between two Saints by a Mannerist from Norcia.

At the end of the 20th century the top of the altar in the right aisle revealed a table made of Roman stone blocks bearing an inscription. The wooden statue of St. Giuliana comes from here (15th century), and can now be found in the Museum of Castellina di Norcia together with a fourteenth-century Madonna. The adjoining wall bears frescoes of the 16th century and a niche with the Madonna della Misericordia (who later became Madonna of the Rosary). Both the Virgin Mary and the Child are holding a rose.