Chiesa di San Leone

The Chiesa di San Leone is a Byzantine church built on a basilica plan, with three aisles divided by columns. Inside, it measures 33 metres long and 20 metres wide, not counting the private chapels. The most striking feature is the hexagonal bell-tower, attached to the church’s left side and dating from 1224. It rises as a slender tower, topped with a conical spire, and is pierced by Romanesque triple windows, trifore, divided by pairs of small stone columns, one of which is twisted. Two of these trifore are open and visible from outside; others are bricked up and can only be seen from within. The tower once held the town’s public clock, removed in 1951. Reaching the belfry involves a rudimentary stone spiral staircase to the first floor, then an iron ladder to the second, where the cement floor is rough and the walls show traces of blocked-in columns.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.