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Santa Maria della Scala
One of Europe's oldest hospitals, facing the cathedral, now a museum of frescoes and archaeology.
- Editor's score
- 4.6
- Visit
- 1 h 30
- Price
- €€
About
For the best part of a thousand years this vast complex cared for pilgrims, the sick and abandoned children, and it remained a hospital until the late twentieth century. Its Pellegrinaio is painted with fifteenth-century scenes of hospital life. The original panels of Jacopo della Quercia's Fonte Gaia are kept here, and the lower floors hold the archaeological museum.
Best time to go: Head first to the Pellegrinaio, the frescoed pilgrims' hall, then explore the lower levels.
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