Altar in the chapel of the Sacred Belt,Prato,Tuscany,Italy

Prato,Italy,11 october 2015. The Chapel of the Sacred Belt is the most sacred place of the entire city of Prato, preserves the Holy Girdle, namely the belt which, according to ancient traditions, was donated by the Virgin to St. Thomas during the Assumption, and arrived in Prato in the XII century.The chapel is frescoed with stories of the Virgin and the Girdle was painted in 1392-1395 by Agnolo Gaddi with perfect technique and bright colors.The elegant eighteenth-century altar, with relief by Emilio Greco, contains the Sacred Belt, and is crowned by a marble Madonna and Child (about 1301), a masterpiece by Giovanni Pisano.