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Cappuccini Church, Roman Catholic church in Varzi, Italy.

Cappuccini Church displays a distinctive facade with a stone base and brick upper section, marked by multiple columns around its main entrance. Inside, the building contains several artistic works, including a notable fresco of the Annunciation and religious paintings spanning different periods.

Construction of the church began in the 12th century and was completed in the early 1300s, showing the project continued across multiple generations. The artistic works inside, particularly the 15th-century frescoes, were added later and created by skilled local artists.

The church is dedicated to Saint Germain and was the parish church of Varzi and the upper Staffora valley for four centuries, until 1594. The Capuchins, a branch of the Franciscan order, settled here in 1623 and built the adjoining convent, incorporating the old canonry. Expelled under Napoleon in 1802, they bought the convent back and reconsecrated the church in 1903; it still belongs to them.

The church stands in Varzi, in the Staffora valley, on the road toward the Capuchin convent the friars built beside it in 1623. The nave is entered from the stone-based façade; the apse with the 1484 Annunciation fresco and the baroque wooden altar lies at the far end. The building is still in Capuchin hands and used for worship, so visits are fitted around services.

The right side chapel houses a painting of Madonna with Saint Felice da Cantalice, created by a follower of the painter Moncalvo. This work reveals connections between local artistic traditions and broader regional influences of that era.

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