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Chiesa dei Santi Martino e Stefano

The pink-and-grey Baroque facade of the church of Santi Martino e Stefano in Montemagno, its curved portico at the top of the staircase
Photo: Andrea Musuruane · CC BY-SA 4.0

Montemagno's Baroque parish church — dedicated to Saints Martin and Stephen, but long known too as the church of the Assunta — closes the top of Piazza San Martino behind a curved, columned portico. The present building went up in 1730; the theatrical staircase and rotunda were added in 1776 to a design by Count Beinasco, and in 1822-24 the architect Pietro Del Mastro reshaped the interior around a dome, frescoed with the Assumption of the Virgin among music-making angels. The square it presides over is often counted among the most beautiful in Piedmont.

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