Bagnone

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Bagnone is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Massa and Carrara in the Italian region Tuscany, located about Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Florence and about Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Massa in the Lunigiana, facing the Monte Sillara, which has a peak elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".. The Bagnone torrent crosses the Communal territory, a left affluence of the Magra River.

Sights include the castle, the churches of San Niccolò (rebuilt in the 18th century, including a 15th-century Madonna del Pianto from the medieval edifice) and San Leonardo (1785) and the oratory of San Terenzio (housing 17th-century paintings).

On 22 August 2009, a lottery player from Bagnone won an estimated €146.9 million (£128 million / US$211 million) in Italy's SuperEnalotto.[1] This is considered Europe's biggest ever lottery win.

Main sights

The church of the Madonna del Pianto

The church of Madonna del Pianto has a rectangular shape with a unique nave with neoclassical columns and two semi-octagons on the lateral sides.[2] The sacred complex has a central dome, a balustrade with a chess paving decorated with polychrom marbles which opens to a major altar and a wide choir.[2] The True Cross relic is venerated on 5 May and on 14 September each year.[3][2]

Near the apse there is a pipe organ with three spans and a pediment shaped as a tympanum. The pipe organ was built in 1899 by Gaetano Cavalli of Lodi.[4]

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