Cultural sights
The Church of San Pietro e San Cesareo (18th cent.) face the nice Piazza Panfili. The church is aisless with three chapels on both sides.
It contains valued paintings of the 15th-19th cent., among which a Coronation of the Virgin of the 16th cent., a Last Supper ascribed to the school of Gian Francesco Perini (16th cent.), a S. Atanasio of the 19th century.
In the urn in the chapel on the right of the high altar the mortal remains of Beato Pascuccio are kept. He was a secular Francescan living in the 15th century, to whom many miracles are ascribed.
Inside the sacristy in a tiny museum are shown the archaeologic finds coming from the Convent of Santa Illuminata. The remains of the convent, founded by St. Romualdo, the founder of the Camaldolese order, are not far from the trunk road 205, "Amerina".
Built in 1007, the convent was handed down to the Francescans and St. Francis himself slept quite a few times in the nearby grotto, still object of a sincere veneration.
Next to the Town Hall is the Church of Sant'Egidio (13th cent.). Enlarged in the 16th cent. was further enlarged in 1690. Behind the altar a good fresco of the 16th cent. depicting the Virgin Mary in throne with Saints has been recently discovered. There's also a pagan altar, coming from the destroyed Church of St. Stefano del Marruto.
On the same spot where once was a shrine, now is the Church of St. Lucia (19th cent.) noteworthy for the fresco (1890) of the famous painter Domenico Bruschi which embellishes the apse.
Environmental sights
3 kilometres from Guardea, secluded and surrounded by the mounts Allocco, Corvo, San Benedetto, Castellari and the hill on whose top is Old Guardea, is the Valley of Cocciano. It's one of the most charming and unspoiled places in the Amerino, with clus-ters of stone houses surrounded by woods. On the top of the hills are ruins of medieval monastic settlements often visited by excursionists fond of nature and history as well.
