Church of San Rocco

It is the parish church of the Municipality and is located in the central Piazza Orsini, next to and a few meters from the Church of Sant'Antonio. The façade clearly reveals that another body (1673) was added to the original body of 1527 (enlarged in 1549).

The church was dedicated to San Rocco, healer of plague victims, just to ask for an intercession during the great plague of those years and in 1559 Pope Paul IV, son of the Marchesa Vittoria Camponeschi, Madame of Montorio, raised her to Collegiata.

It has a horizontal crowning and an access portal surmounted by a lunette that houses the coat of arms of Montorio, a palmette frieze on the external frame and a bas-relief depicting the moment of the Annunciation. The left façade, on the other hand, has a flat architrave portal with a broken top tympanum in the center of which the symbol of Montorio al Vomano is placed with a cross that surmounts it.

On the left you can see a large bell tower with an unusual shape that houses two bells and a large round clock, also probably from the seventeenth century, while on the opposite side there is a high bell tower in which a bell is housed . Internally, despite the two bodies of which the building is composed, it has a single nave with a chapel on the left.

It houses four monumental baroque altars made of painted and gilded wood and dating back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with paintings of the previous era. The altar of the Resurrection, in the left chapel, houses five reliquary busts of Sante.

Just above the entrance door there is the choir in which is located a Neapolitan organ located in 1636, which apparently represents the oldest organ so far known in Abruzzo, and is embellished with engravings and sculptures and entirely covered with a leaf gold.