Basilica of St. Giacomo
Romanesque hillside church whose Spanish Dead Christ statue was swept into the lake by a flood and rescued by fishermen.
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This guide to the Basilica of St. Giacomo on Lake Como opens with a carved wooden Christ, a Cristo Morto shipped from Spain to a garrison near the Pian di Spagna, that disappeared one night when the Adda river flooded and swept it out of camp and into the lake. It sits with the soldiers who lost the one sacred object they had been sent to guard, then turns to the church itself, built by masons from Como between the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries and later buried under two centuries of Baroque plasterwork before restorers uncovered its Romanesque stone. Listen for how a soldier's disaster and a hidden church end up tied together.
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