Chiesa della Madonna di San Bernardino
Mountainside sanctuary with a canvas Madonna said to have survived centuries untouched by decay.
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This guide to the Chiesa della Madonna di San Bernardino, perched above Corniglia in Cinque Terre, follows Prospero Luxardo's sixteen forty-one canvas of the Madonna and the local tale of villagers who climbed the ridge decades later expecting to restore its fading colors. It traces the mountain chapel's earlier history, the two saints of Siena and Clairvaux who gave the ridge its name, and a local claim that Bernardino of Siena himself once walked this same path toward Genoa in fourteen eighty-five, a century before any chapel was recorded here. Stand at roughly three hundred ninety meters and look for the Gothic window in the facade before you step inside toward the altar.
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