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Church · Forino (AV)

Church of Santa Maria de Castro

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 427 m
Church of Santa Maria de Castro
Photo: Giandomenico Fanelli · Public domain · resized

An old royal church at Martignano di Forino, probably of Byzantine origin, open for the Easter Monday (Lunedì in Albis) pilgrimage.

In the hamlet of Martignano, in Forino, stands the royal church of Santa Maria de Castro, also known as the Madonna di Costantinopoli. Its origins are debated, but the most widely accepted theory links it to Basilian monks of the Byzantine era. In the feudal and Angevin periods it was a royal church and passed between nobles and clergy, until in 1536 the rectorship went to a local family that still holds its patronage.The style is a sober Romanesque with neoclassical touches. We suggest looking at the tuff doorway, with the carved figures of Saints Nicholas and Agnellus. The single nave, roofed with wooden trusses, holds an altar renewed in 1875 and the Stations of the Cross by Giovanni Spiniello, with a burial crypt below. The church opens to the public for the pilgrimage of Lunedì in Albis (Easter Monday).

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