The Icon Museum is housed in the eighteenth-century Palazzo De Scrilli, located in the historic center. There are works of art collected over the past few decades and donated to the citizenship by Mons. Vincenzo Catani, a native of the place and now parish priest in San Benedetto del Tronto. On the three floors of the building will feature works of different artistic nature: In the hall on the first floor has…
The Church of St. Peter, is located in the village of Chalk in Comunanza. Historical sources state that the church was already in existence in 1381 and which has since been rebuilt several times. Than today dates back to 1960. With some furnace, mainly the country of it in the neck and “bigattiere” (cultivation of silkworms), in the sixteenth century it was under the rule of the Duke of Atri Attilius Aloysius,…
The Church of St. John is located in the hamlet of Illice in Comunanza. Listed in Rationes Decimarum of 1290, but that, because of the several restorations suffered through the centuries, retains the original only in its perimeter.
The Church of the Holy Saviour, is located in the hamlet of Lago in Comunanza, surrounded by vegetation. It ‘a wonderful example of medieval religious architecture rural hinterland Ascoli. The Church today, which already existed in 1290, was built on the remains of an older building of which remains a part of the wall, on which is portrayed the image of the Savior holding the cruciferous globe, repainted several times but that…
The Church of Santa Maria Assunta is located in Lisciano fraction of Comunanza. The church is a longitudinal plan, with an apse, with the bell tower of recent reconstruction. Inside, in the apse, there are two frescoes depicting angels, performed, perhaps for Thanksgiving, as a soldier during the Second World War who had taken refuge in the hamlet.
The Church of St. Mary in Spino is located in the hamlet of Nasuto in Comunanza. The church already existed in 1381, which, though in an advanced state of decay, retains all the simple beauty of rural medieval interior zones of the Piceno. It has clean lines, built in brick, with square blocks of “sponga” and in the basement, with local stone. Obvious are the many changes. The small entrance is in…
The Medieval Church of San Martino is located in the hamlet of Palombara in Comunanza. Erected along the route of the pilgrims who came to Rome, it was a stopping point and devotion. Initially it was a small chapel with an apse front porch, passed away in the next expansion. The oldest structure remain the apse with a lancet and and side walls. Inside, in the apse, there are remains of medieval…
The Church of St. Sebastian is located in the hamlet Piane Comunanza. Constructed with local stone and brick in the fifteenth century, a longitudinal plan and essential line, it is dedicated to the patron saint against infectious diseases. Subject to various changes over the centuries, has the only door to the left of the altar, where you can admire frescoes not covered by plaster, depicting the Madonna and Child with St. Sebastian’s…
St. Anne’s Church is’ in late-Romanesque style, with porches in the prospectus and in the west side, a bell tower; the interior has a nave with a trussed roof and stucco altar century. It was built by the writer Antonio Caferri in the seventeenth century. to make a convent of Friars Minor Conventual, but was never used for that purpose.