Chiesa di San Lorenzo
Gothic parish church with a carved martyrdom lunette and a Carrara marble rose window above the harbor.
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This guide to Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Manarola opens with a puzzle carved above the door: a stone lunette showing a man stretched on a grill and set alight. It traces the legend of Lawrence, a third-century Roman deacon who defied a prefect's demand for the church's treasure, and the unbroken nerve that later made him patron saint of cooks and comedians. Manarola built its Gothic church and carved rose window around him in the thirteen hundreds, with a separate bell tower that began life as a watchtower against the sea.
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