Church of San Vincenzo Confessore or of Sorrows in Camaiore

The church dedicated to San Vincenzo Ferretti, known as San Vincenzo Confessore, was built in the 16th century inside a building complex in the historic center of Camaiore and is located a few steps from the eastern entrance of Via Vittorio Emanuele. It is also known as the church 'of Sorrows' because of an 18th century oil painting depicting the Madonna of Sorrows, San Domenico and San Genesio, originally placed as an altarpiece but now preserved in the museum of sacred art. The facade, reconfigured during the 19th century, is characterized by an architectural apparatus in mortar, in Ionic style that recalls a Greco-Roman temple with a triangular pediment. In the center opens the marble door surmounted by a lunette above which is a mullioned window decorated with reliefs in mortar. The church has a rectangular plan and the presbytery faces south-west. The entrance is characterized by an endonarthex (the part of the church reserved for the unbaptized and penitents), a hall and the main chapel which is accessed through a serliana motif (an architectural element composed of a round arch symmetrically flanked by two openings surmounted by an architrave; two columns are placed between the arch and the two openings). The main chapel has painted representations on the walls and various plastic moldings.