Immaculate Conception’s church

The church was built in the 17th century (as proved by an official document preserved in the Town Historical Archive), and is nestled in the buildings overlooking the main square, “Piazza della Libertà”.

According to the official document, Borromeo Accursi, as a testament on the 17th December 1697, left part of his goods for building four chaplaincies inside the Holy Mary Immaculate Conception’s church.

The building of the church started in 1821 (as written in a plague inside the church, at the right side of the transept) and it is very particular, thanks to its neoclassical façade. Four high plinths support flat lesenes, perfectly inserted in the wall. Over these, a frame, enriched with triglyph and metopes decorated with floral elements.
In the facade, there is as well a central tympanum, held in a shaped frame. The lateral compartments, created in the middle of the lesenes, have rectangular windows, on the top of the middle part, a half-circular Diocletian window. Over the portal, there is a flat notice with the Latin inscription: DEO MAGNO AETERNO SACRUM IN HONOREM DEI PAR DEIPARAE AB ORIGINE IMMACOLATAE ANNO DOMINI MDCCCXXIII.
The interior is in a Greek cross structure and is very narrow, due to the loss of the fourth arm of the church in the 1800, during the renovation of the main square; for this reason, the front part of the church was demolished so to be at the same level as the adjacent buildings. The main altar is decorated with two angels’ figures 8made in an antique factory in Pollenza) over standing the Holy Mary.

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Address Piazza della Libertà
Construction 1821

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