Many valuable relics are kept in the museum. Among these, we note that of San Fortunato, attributed to Peter Paul de Aurificis (1509), an artist native of Valle Castellana (Te). Other reliquaries, of different types, were donated to the local community by Monsignor Ariodante Ciccolini, who lived for a long time in Rome, which collected more than 400, currently placed at the beautiful church of Santa Viviana. In the museum you can…

The Church of Saint Lucia is located in the hamlet of Capradosso Rotella. The Church holds an important Gothic reliquary in embossed copper (XV century), according to some local historians, the work dates back to Alexander Baptist Marcuccio, a student of Vannini. Also interesting is a painting attributed to the school of De Magistris, representing Our Lady of the Rosary in the bezel and, below, various costumed characters, members of the family…

In a small clearing at the foot of Mount Ascension, there is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Consolation or Montemisio. The Church was built by the monks of Farfa, built on the ruins of a pagan temple dedicated to the goddess Artemis or Artemisia. The cult went first to the veneration of the Virgin of the Belt, then to Our Lady of Tempera (the water required fields). According to legend, while…

The Church of Saint Lucia, in the village of Poggio Canoso, dates back to centuries. XIV. The first document that testifies to the building is the land registry of Poggio Canoso, of 1381. The main altar was dedicated to Saint Lucia; in one of the chapels of the church were the relics of Saint Lucia and Saint Fortunato, the latter invoked against hail and storms. The church was badly damaged by the…

The halls of the former baronial mansion “Crow”, in Poggio Canoso, home to the Museum of Natural and Agricultural Environment River and educational workshop. There have been set up themed rooms (the forest, the river environment, the field observations, the agricultural landscape, the rural culture) with dioramas, light displays, collections of leaves and fruits of the forest and other teaching aids. The educational workshop also has a projection room, a video library…

The church of San Lorenzo, consecrated to St. Lawrence the Deacon and Martyr, was built on the site of an earlier church of unknown origins. While the previous church had two aisles, the present one is narrower by at least two metres and consists of a single nave, but it preserves the original longitudinal plan with the apse directed toward northeast. The construction of the church of San Lorenzo began on the…

The existence of the church of Santa Maria de’ Cellis, consecrated to St. Mary of the Cisterns and to St. John the Baptist, is documented from the 12th century. The original church and an annexed monastery were built in Romanesque style by Benedictine monks from the Abbey of Farfa. It underwent many alterations over the centuries, especially in the 1300s, 1500s, and 1800s. In the 1300s, the building was raised and divided…

Although now closed, the 1368 Gothic portal is still visible from the Piazza Novana. Its most notable feature is the composition: it is made of three different materials, travertine, sandstone, and terracotta, which suggest a construction with elements reclaimed from pre-existing structures. The two octagonal columns and the little column-bearing lions are of travertine, the ashlars are of sandstone, and the arch is of terracotta. On the terracotta keystone displays in high…

The Town Hall of Montedinove was built in the late twelfth century, and consisted of two buildings separated by a street (“rua”) very close, called “Palace Pretorale” and “Palace Priory”. During the period of the French, in the early nineteenth century, the two buildings were united and became private homes. In 1817, finished the occupation of Napoleon’s troops, the institutional structure returned. The Town Hall is the result of subsequent reconstruction: the…

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