The church of San Paolino

San Paolino, Lucca's only Renaissance church, stands to the west of the Piazza San Michele. This aisleless church was built between 1522 and 1539 by Baccio da Montelupo and his successor Bastiano Bertolani, probably on a site once occupied by a Roman temple. In the presbytery is an Early Christian sarcophagus with a representation of the Good Shepherd in which St Paulinus, the church's patron, was buried.