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San Niccolò al Carmine (aka Santa Maria del Carmine) Frommer's Recommended

Location Pian dei Mantellini, In Terza di Città
Transportation Bus: A (green, yellow)
Phone No phone
Prices Free admission

Frommer's Review

This 14th-century church on the edge of town was remodeled by Sienese master architect Baldassare Peruzzi in 1517 and contains some good baroque works. Search out especially Domenico Beccafumi's eerily luminous St. Michael, on the right wall's altar. The chapel holds Sodoma's dark Birth of the Virgin. The left side of the church has -- to balance the Beccafumi -- a beat-up but well-done Ascension by Girolamo del Pacchia.

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