After visiting the Sambuca and seeing the Iron Cross, I was finally arrived in the San Gualberto Church.
The Church of San Gualberto is strange. As I asked, I found it open and perfectly empty. He was so empty that I could also went around the Sacred Sepulcher in the left wing. To prove this I can tell you that the small space behind the Sacred Sepulcher is used as a storage room and there are crates of chairs and big candlesticks.
I said it was strange because it is an objectively beautiful and artistically curated church in a place out of the world. Even in this case, as in Sambuca, the feeling that transmitted was a sort of calm and brightness and that was the state of my mind and my felling during all the visit. After the experience in Sambuca and the bright calm here in the church, and despite all that is happening between the brotherhoods, I felt that the Church, the Valley and their mystery will resist everything attempt to manipulate the power of the secrets hidden here, because they live out of our time. It is something like a Mandala outside our time or a “hidden valley”. I do not know if you know these concepts, but the whole Valley has its own life, it has its own energies and secret and it is not as it appears. It appears in the real world with its material form, and this is what we see, but it also has its appearance in a more subtle reality that is "behind" the ordinary one, as there was another dimension overlapping/superimposed on the ordinary one, and in this other dimension Valle Benedetta is reflected in its timeless brightness and is calm and serene in spite of the passions that animate the minds of those going around. The Church is the centre of this "reality behind reality" and it said that all is continuously changing in our reality and also the Church itself will also pass one day, but the hidden secret from a certain point of view is eternal, or, at least, it will last for a long time beyond these times. The time maybe will not reveal it, just because people are lost in themselves and therefore are not fitting to fully understand the secret and teachings. The secrets are there, but a pure mind is needed to discover and above all to fully understand them.
The door relief are very interesting. I also saw the angel with the cup and the angel on the opposite side that seems to have a whip. And under there are the two famous statue of the angels… one looking up (the one under the whip) and the other down (the one under the cup). The altar-boy is very well designed. Some modern paintings are stoned in their sad envy with the bright room of the church.
When I came out I was doubtful that there was an important place to visit but that I did not see, that is the choir behind the altar. Some lines on the floor lead right there, but time was running out and I had to go to the cemetery.