Lucca - Santa Maria Forisportam

Santa Maria Forisportam (Outside the gate) got its name because when it was built in the 13th century it stood outside the gate in the Roman town walls. The facade, in Pisan Romanesque style, is unfinished. The interior is aisled. It contains an Early Christian sarcophagus (with representations of the Good Shepherd and Daniel in the lions' den) converted for use as a font. In the right transept is a Baroque ciborium by Giovanni Vambrè, in the left transept is a picture, the "Death and Assumption of the Virgin", painted on a gold ground by Angelo Puccinelli (1386).