Church of Santa Croce

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Located between the lanes and alleys of the town and built at the beginning of the 16th century, it has an imposing structure with a large façade on which opens a beautiful stone portal with a flat architrave. In the early decades of the seventeenth century it was raised and the dome was added.

In the lunette above the portal there is a statue of the Madonna, while in the back wall there is a bell tower built at the beginning of the nineteenth century massive and with a square plan with a spire ending.

The interior is enriched and embellished with many elements. It has a single nave and along the side walls there are four Baroque altars and five statues, placed at the end of the eighteenth century.

On the altars you can admire four beautiful paintings depicting the Madonna degli Angeli, the Madonna del Rosario and the Crucifixion, made by the eighteenth-century painter Tommaso Monti, and the Adoration of the Magi by Fabrizio Santafede.

The statues instead depict the three Theological Virtues, Faith, Hope and Charity, as well as Moses and St. Peter, representing the Old and the New Testaments respectively. Near the side entrance embedded in the wall are the Diocesan symbol of the 2000 Jubilee and the plaque with the Cross of Indulgences by Pope Leo XIII. Immediately above the entrance there is a beautiful organ of the late eighteenth century.

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Church of Santa Croce
Corso Gualtieri, 64020 Bellante TE
Lat: 42.743663
Lng: 13.805748
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