Last minute Itinerari Deruta

The town Deruta

Among the most typical zones of the ancient suburb, in Piazza dei Consoli there's the City-Hall, a building built in 1300 which today is centre of Town-hall and the Communal Picture-Gallery.

In front of there is the St. Francis Church, entirely reconstructed around the end of the XIV century consequently a violent earthquake that notably damaged the preceding construction. It was realised in Gothic style, with the façade adorned by an ogival portal and a rose window enriched by precious decorative elements.

Inside valuable paintings and frescos can be admired, among which one "Madonna with Child and Saints", of Domenico Alfani, and other works of Giovan Battista Caporali and others of Umbrian and Siena's   school of the centuries XIV and XV. Very interesting is the fresco which portrays the "Martyrdom of Saint Caterina in Alexandria", of 1339, considered the protector of the potters.

In the convent attached to the St. Francis Church it has centre the Regional Museum of the Ceramics.

Always in the historical centre of Deruta, in Piazza Benincasa rises the Sant'Antonio Church, richly embellished by paints of Giovan Battista Caporali. One among the most suggestive is found in the niche adjacent to the greater altar, representing scenes of life of Sant'Antonio Abate. It's a cycle of four scenes which narrate episodes of life of the saint, assisted by other two saints able to send away the danger of the contagion of the plague: San Rocco and San Sebastiano.