Built around the 11th-12th century, it also uses the material from a pre-existing Etruscan or Roman temple, it is the oldest church in Vallerano. The church is structured in two bodies with a single perpendicular hall, built a few decades apart from each other. On the...
Its origins are not officially documented but the information handed down to us by the older generations lead us to believe that the cult of the Madonna, source of grace, was already present before 1600. The location where the Church stands was called “Cavacignale”,...
The patronal church dedicated to San Vittore, a Roman soldier converted to faith in Christ and therefore martyred, stands on the highest point of the town. Originally in Romanesque style, it proposes an evocative coffered ceiling from 1762. In the apse there are...
During the mid-1700s the ancient church of Sant’Andrea, the matrix and cathedral of Vallerano, threatened to collapse and it was decided to begin construction of a new larger and more monumental church where the fortress of Vallerano once stood. It is a very elegant...
The building of the sanctuary began following the miraculous event of 5 July 1604 when a trickle of blood gushed from the lips of the Virgin depicted in a pre-existing chapel. Built with the offerings left by pilgrims, at the behest of the faithful and of Cardinal...
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