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Church · Cusano Mutri (BN)

Church of Santa Maria del Castagneto

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 398 m
Church of Santa Maria del Castagneto
Photo: Adam91 · CC BY 3.0 · resized

Former Benedictine abbey in Cusano Mutri of Lombard origin, with a Romanesque-Byzantine sculpture and stone fragments.

Among the oldest sacred buildings in Cusano Mutri, the Church of Santa Maria del Castagneto was founded in the Lombard period, a few years after the conversion of Theodorata, wife of Duke Romuald I of Benevento. Some clues, such as a Samnite military burial discovered in 1955, suggest the site was frequented even earlier. Next to it a Benedictine monastery arose, which enjoyed a period of splendour.As people moved to the village the monastery was abandoned and the church became a rural place of worship. The interior, now with a single nave, was larger before the 1349 earthquake and the 1755 restoration. We recommend looking at the Romanesque-Byzantine sculpture on the high altar and, outside, the fragments of inscriptions and bas-reliefs set into the wall, beside the stone bell tower.

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