Chiesa di San Basso

San Basso, bishop and martyr of Nice, whose body was crossed from head to foot by two long nails, was transported by sea in the Piceno welcomed by refugees of Nice and just above the harbor of the Cupra outside the Roman walls of the city and at the spring of Acqua Santa, then known as San Basso. In the area rose at the Pieve di San Basso at Civita (ninth century), which long held the tomb of the saint whose body was moved only in the tenth century by the district Civita Marano, first at the mother church of Santa Maria in Castello, later in the new church of San Basso in Marano until 1876, The Church of St. Basso holds within it inteno an important painting by Vittore Crivelli, The Virgin Adoring between San Basso and San Sebastian. The cult of St. Basso has crossed the borders of the country to spread in most parts of the Adriatic coast, from Termoli to the Venetian lagoon, Istria; sailors Cupra Marittima have contributed in a decisive way to spread the cult of the saint. San Basso is the protector of fishermen.