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Church · Mondragone (CE)

Belvedere Chapel

  • Visit: about 20 min
Pictured: Mondragone · Corrado Volpicelli · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized and cropped

At the foot of the Massico in Mondragone, the little Belvedere church, linked to the Madonna Incaldana, preserves its original frescoed apse.

In the north-western part of Mondragone, at the foot of a spur of Monte Massico, stands the little Belvedere church, founded in the 13th century next to a friary. Here the painting of the Madonna and Child later known as the Madonna Incaldana was kept. In the 16th century a Turkish raid set it on fire, sparing only the apse; in recent times it has been completely rebuilt.We recommend going inside to admire the semicircular apse, the only original part, with a fragmentary fresco of saints and angels. We love the legend of the painting carried into town by an ox cart with no driver, relived every Easter Monday in a costumed procession. Outside stands the Croce del Belvedere, re-erected in 2020.

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