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In the lower church of San Fermo there are about seventy frescoes, painted between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. To make up for the dim light, caused by the church’s underground setting and small windows, the Benedictines painted the ceiling in white, marking the contours of the vaults with red lines.
The ceiling vaults are decorated with a six-petalled flower inscribed in a circle, symbolising the Risen Christ. One pillar shows an Annunciation, while further inside you’ll find Saint Benedict and Saint Jerome in the desert with the lion. These frescoes date back to the second half of the twelfth century and are therefore part of the decoration of the Romanesque Benedictine church.
