San Cristoforo, Lucca

San Cristoforo is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, former Roman Catholic church located on the narrow Via Fillungo in the center of Lucca, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Now deconsecrated and stripped of its former interior altars and decoration, the chapel served as a memorial for those fallen in the wars.. A church at the site is documented since 1053.

The façade has a pattern of alternating white and dark stone, influenced by the style of churches in Pisa.

[1] In 1939 to 1940, much of the interior decoration was stripped, the church deconsecrated, and it was made as a chapel to recall those fallen in the Second World War.

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