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Near the Etruscan sepulchral area sited outside
the town of Magliano in the southern Tuscany, sourrounded by olive-groves,
rises the rests of the Romanic church of S.Tiburzio, better known with
the popular name of S.Bruzio. This religious settlement was an important
presbitery, remembered since the 13th-14th century.
Between its walls were offered hospitality at
the old priests of the local diocese: they started a commonlife, giving
birth at a kind of monastery. Today survives the rests of the presbiterial
part, with the central Abside, two wings of the transept and the octagonal
foundation of the Dome (Cupola) that reaches out towards the sky in
the grafting point with the unique big central Nave. Of the Dome and
the nave remain no traces. The external sides of the church, in particular
the outside sweep of the abside, were finely worked and endowed with
slender semi-columns waking up with hanging arcades. The architecture
of S.Bruzio remember closely the Lombard style of the northern Italy,
but in some particulars - the decorations of the abside, the column
capitals and the lightness of its global form - we can see the developement
of a primordial Gothic style. In the scarces rests we can still admire
many sculptures and other fine carved furnishings.

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