The Bigallo Vegetable Garden

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A big stone wall of limestone partially covered by ivy surrounds the Bigallo vegetable garden. A place that hosts numerous olive trees, fruit trees, vineyards and, in the lower part near the arcades with the washrooms, a portion of land reserved for growing vegetables.

Near the south side are the remains of an ancient chapel, still registered in the IGM cartography from 1904. The small building had been constructed in the first half of the eighteenth century to replace one which was demolished in 1702. Today the structure is totally devoid of a roof, on the main facade remains a round imprint which would have contained a rose window in the past and on the side walls are two square windows bordered by chiseled sandstone. On the back wall were two round windows, which are now walled. Inside, vegetation has covered all the collapsed materials, on the wall which would have contained the altar, even in the sixties of the twentieth century, the remains of a figure painted with traces of red could be observed.

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