THE CHURCH

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The Basilica has a rectangular facade of shape of white stone-typical red of the mountain Subasio. To the center of the facade it is opened a window that was introduced towards the half of the past century in substitution of the rosone pre-existing that considerable had been damaged. The fragments recovered are served to realize the window. The entrance of the church, I post under the road level, is protected from an elegant portico built subsequently to the church with material of I restore. The portico is formed from three arcs to sixth, frontal, and two side. The columns are rather coarse and surmounted from different capitals between them. To the right of the portichetto is yourselves a newsstand with a sinopia of the Mesastris, representing the Virgin crowned from two angels, restored in 2001. The newsstand venne raised in 1480 and served like altar to the open one for celebrarvi the eucaristia, as in time of plague itself timely ritenne to celebrate the rites to the open one rather that to the inside. On the right hand it notes the bulky tower campanaria, of square shape, of the XII century, perhaps done not build express like belltower. To difference of other towers not bath to cuspide. The inside is constituted from three edifying naves in different periods. The central unit goes back to the XII sec. In origin the nave was delimited from wall of stone, where I venerate then put into practice some holes to arc to the end of to connect the successive naves. In the fifteenth century they had been done the plasters for realizzarvi of the you fresco; in the seventeenth century had been placed yourselves of the fed up and of the friezes dismissed in the I restore of 1855. The floor was remaked in 1957. During the year 2001, were done studies deepened for the total restoration of the Basilica, reshaped and deteriorated in the course of the centuries
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