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Looking up to Chiesa do Sant'Antonio, ie Church of Saint Anthony |
The climb does not look much, but the route turned out to be quite steep, and had a medieval air to it.
The Saint Anthony the church is dedicated to is almost certainly a Portuguese nobleman's son, christened Fernando Martins de Bulhões, who won fame for his teaching and for helping the poor in and around Padua, northeast Italy.
He died in 1231, aged 35, and was canonised by Pope Gregory IX less than a year later.
The church, presumably must have been built within a few years of Anthony's death, looks strictly functional from outside, and I was not able to enter.
However, the walk was the thing - the church just gave it a theme, and without it I almost certainly would not have explored the hillside of Solcio.
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