Description

The Church of San Egidio, located between the castle and the village of Poggio di Croce, has a portico in front that shelters a 15th-century fresco in which one may recognize fragments of a gigantic St. Christopher (by Paolo da Visso), a Marriage of Saint Catherine (by Giovanni Sparapane) and an Annunciation. The portico has a distinctive ceiling with a wooden structure and tiles decorated with geometric, floral and animal motifs.

Inside the church there are five altars from the 17th century and a late 18th-century choir, with a functioning organ. At the first altar one may admire the Marriage of Saint Catherine and the Nativity, frescoes by an Umbrian painter from the early 16th century. On the high altar there is a Madonna and Child with Saints Giles and Nicholas of Bari by the Florentine Jacopo Confortini (1640). Next to it is a wooden statue of St. Giles from the late 15th century and a 15-century cross.