Monuments - Chiesa di San Leo
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The Church of San Leo (17th century) has a rectangular plan, a single nave with side chapels. It has precious 19th-century stucco on the walls and a sumptuous Baroque high altar in whose polychrome niche is a white marble statue of St Leo (Patron Saint of Bova) (1582). On either side of the niche is a double row of inlaid red marble columns, and at the top is the city's coat of arms in marble. The Baroque Chapel of the Relics of St Leo is dated 1722, a gift from the Marzano brothers for graces received from the saint. In this chapel, there is a marble altar consisting of four polychrome marble columns dated 1732, in a richly chiselled silver urn the Saint's relics are kept; the silver half-bust statue of St Leo is also of exquisite workmanship. In the chapel of the right aisle is a precious 18th-century canvas depicting the Immaculate Madonna with clasped hands, resting her foot on the moon and trampling the serpent, flanked by St Francis of Paola, St Anthony of Padua and St Joseph. The canvas is the work of Calabrian painters influenced by the Neapolitan school.
