Chiesa di Santa Maria del Piano Santo

The Church of Santa Maria del Santo Plan or commonly called the “Cona” is located outside the town. In some deeds of the fifteenth century the district where it is referred to as “Planum Sancti Thomae”, probably because of the extensive possessions of the church of the Lateran ascolana St. Thomas. Therefore, the name of the church is explained by the fall of the name ‘Thomas’ (as in the case of the adjacent district ‘holy lake’). The church was built on the initiative of the Confraternity of the Rosary, 1604 to 1611, where there was already a kiosk medieval. Public cemetery from the beginning of the nineteenth century until 1885 or so, was restored at the end of the last century, and in 1980, through the work of some local enthusiasts. Inside there is a magnificent baroque altar with a fresco, The Coronation of the Virgin, attributed to the Master of Offida, active between the mid-fourteenth century and perhaps the beginning of the fifteenth century.