About three-hundred metres outside the walls, leaving through Porta Romana (Roman Gate), you will find SS. Crocifisso Church, a wonderful building dated 16th century. The Church may have been built as wished by the people devoted to an ancient aedicula of the 14th century called Maestà delle Forche or “di Piobicca”, still enshrined in a recess at the back of the presbytery.
Starting from 1593, the most ancient architectural shapes were then replaced by the still visible Renaissance ones, as wished by Bishop Angelo Cesi and thanks to architects Valentino Martelli and Ippolito Scalza‘s work.
The church displays a Greek cross plan with arms extending roughly seventeen metres in width, and over twenty-seven in length.
Inside, the church is plastered whereas outside it is stonebuilt with rough bricks and marked by pilasters with Tuscan capitals.
You can access the Church by a large portal adorned with a stoned frame made in the first half of the 20th century and covered by a round roof with a lantern on top.