Colonna della Madonna dello Stellario - Lucca - Tuscany

Passing Piazza San Pietro and following Via della Fratta, one comes to a crossroads where seven roads converge, including Via del Fosso: here is the Column of the Madonna dello Stellario. The obelisk, of Corinthian order, rests on a pedestal depicting a view of Lucca. On the top is a statue of the Madonna, donated to the "Compagnia della Concezione o dello Stellario" (Compagnia of the Conception or of the Stellario), which had its seat in San Francesco. The statue, the work of the sculptor Giovanni Lazzoni, is a Baroque insert of considerable importance and was placed above the column at the end of the 17th century.

Willem Vandenameele