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In the 1600s, for the people\u2019s convenience, the old St Gregory\u2019s church outside the city walls was replaced by the little church in town, thereafter becoming the main parish church with the privilege of becoming the Bishop\u2019s Seat and Collegiate of Clergymen. From then on, the church has been known as St Gregory\u2019s Church and Collegiate (<strong>Chiesa di S. Gregorio e Collegiate<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>The church has one main aisle with a semicircular apse in a Latin cross layout. Inside are valuable frescoes, paintings and works of art.<\/p>\n<p>Between the wooden coffered ceiling and frame, above the entire aisle, are frescoes depicting scenes from the life of the Madonna from her birth to the visit from Elizabeth, attributed to painters of the Florentine Academy. The side chapels are richly decorated, the most important one being the one called <strong>Cappella delle Suore<\/strong> (the nuns\u2019 chapel) to the left of the apse, so called because it is adjacent to the convent of the Poor Clares (Clarisse order), guardians of the Sacred Thorn (<strong>Sacra Spina<\/strong>). According to tradition, <em>Carlo<\/em>, a son of the Fortebracci, gave the religious relic (a thorn from Jesus\u2019 crown of thorns) to the people of Montone after it was given to him by the Venetians in gratitude for his helping them defeat the Turks. In the same chapel on the wooden gold-painted altar, is the <strong>Pazzaglia family<\/strong> crest, one of whose members, <em>Father Giovanni Pazzaglia<\/em>, of the Filipino Order, promoted and financed the expansion works of the church in the 1700s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the upper part of the town next to the Fortebracci fortress tower, stands the church of St Maria Assunta.\u00a0 Its appearance today is the result of expansion works carried out in the 1600s on the ruins of an earlier small church built around 1317. The first church was dedicated to S. 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