Convento dei Frati Cappuccini
Hilltop friary and church with a Crucifixion attributed to Van Dyck, above terraced lemon groves.
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This guide to Convento dei Frati Cappuccini in Cinque Terre follows a Genoese nobleman, Gian Fabio Squarciafico, who funded this hilltop friary around sixteen eighteen with a fortune built on his family's trade in Spain, then gave away what remained to become one of its own barefoot friars. It traces the terraces the friars engineered into the slope for lemon groves and vines, and a flood in March two thousand thirteen that tore out a long stretch of the old wall. Step inside the small nave and look toward the altar.
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