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Church · Positano (SA)

Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta

  • Visit: about 20 min
Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta
Photo: Jensens · Public domain · resized

Positano's mother church, with the Byzantine icon of the Black Madonna on the altar.

The Church of Santa Maria Assunta is Positano's mother church, linked to an ancient Benedictine abbey. Tradition says it was founded after the arrival of a Byzantine icon of the Black Madonna, now on the high altar.Its present appearance dates from the works of 1777–1782. Beneath the church you can visit the Roman villa of the MAR.

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