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Church · Napoli (NA)

Church of Santa Maria dell'Arco a Miano

  • Visit: about 20 min
Pictured: Napoli · Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

Miano sanctuary born around a 15th-century image of the Madonna painted under an arch on the old road to Capua.

On piazza Madonna dell'Arco, in Miano, the church grew from an image: a 15th-century Madonna and Child painted under an arch along the road towards Capua. Tradition tells that a man who could no longer walk was healed while praying before it.News of the miracle drew the faithful from all around and a small church rose above the arch, later enlarged; the Dominicans built a convent beside it. It is still a focus of popular devotion in the district today.

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