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Castelvecchio Museum
The first room in the sculpture gallery houses sculpture, reliefs and epigraphs from the late Medieval and Romanesque periods. Of particular interest is the Sarcophagus of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, dated 1179, which depicts on the upper section two archers shooting an eagle and the two saints in profile holding palms of martyrdom. Reliefs on the coffin recount their story, from the prayer to God to the renunciation of the idolatry and the consequent death sentence.
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