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Church of San Pietro
In the historic center of Agnone, there is this medieval church, the oldest in the town. It is very simple, with a stone ashlar façade divided by three frames, with a Renaissance portal and a large window above. At the rear is the medieval bell tower. The interior, seen briefly through an iron grate, has a single nave. It preserves altars, including two beautifully crafted wooden altars, statues of saints and frescoes: a beautiful and well-kept ensemble.
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Pontifical Marinelli bell foundry
Agnone is famous throughout Italy and Europe for the presence of the ancient Marinelli Foundry, which is in perfect working order and in full swing. Its origins date back to the Middle Ages, and the foundry is remembered for the manufacture of bells for high-profile buildings such as the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin of the Holy Rosary of Pompeii and the Abbey of Montecassino. The first official bells cast by the Marinelli foundry date back to 1339, by the director Nicodemo Marinelli, known as "Campanarus". In the following two centuries, when Italy passed into the hands of the Aragonese, the Marinellis continued to cast bells for the various churches and bell towers that were built throughout the peninsula. In 1924 Pope Pius At the beginning of the 20th century, the Marinellis were called by many churches throughout Italy because the systems for swinging the bells were now obsolete or seriously damaged. When in 1944 the Nazi German occupiers, who had been in civil war with Italy for a year, also arrived in Abruzzo and Molise, the foundry was closed and used as headquarters for battle missions. Furthermore, the bells that were being melted at that time were destroyed by the Nazis and remelted to create combat cannons. Once the Germans were defeated by the Americans, in 1949 the Marinelli foundry remained famous for its contribution, and its name was still on everyone's lips: a reference point for the casting of new bells. After the Second World War in Italy, the Marinellis built the concert of bells for the cathedral of Montecassino, destroyed during the famous battle of the Second World War, and so they continue to contribute to this day, whenever a new church is built, casting the bells necessary for new concerts.
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Church of the Annunziata or del Carmelo
The church of the Annunziata or of Carmine was built in 1505, adjacent to the ancient convent of the Filippini Fathers, the last resting place of Saint Francesco Caracciolo, who died on 4 June 1608. It has a baroque rather than Renaissance appearance, characterized by a gabled façade divided into two sides with a cornice, and vertically with four pilasters on each side, with Doric capitals. Both the portal and the central window are in line with the axis, although very simple; the bell tower is vaulted, located on the left, and the crowning of the upper triangular architrave is serrated. The altar of the Madonna is the second on the right, and houses an eighteenth-century statue of Columbus, adorned with a crown, holding the Child in one hand and a flower in the other. The decorations of the single nave show Baroque splendour, with projecting columns adorned with golden Ionic capitals, and a mixed plaster between pink and white. The main altar shows a niche with the crowned Madonna between Jesus and a saint.
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Church of Maiella
The church is located outside the historic center of Agnone and more precisely in via Don Bosco. Both the church and the adjacent convent were built by decision of San Pietro Celestino. With the building of the church of Santa Maria a Maiella in Agnone the Franciscan way of life was established and everything dates back to a period between 1100 and 1200, a period in which its consecration is also included. With the presence of the Franciscan friars in this convent the possibility was created so that part of the saint's relics consisting of a piece of the tunic and some hair could be kept inside the church. The presence of the friars continued until 1807, when the order was abolished. The interior of the church consists of a single nave which houses multiple recently composed paintings while unfortunately only ruins remain of the convent. The façade of the church was rebuilt in the year 1755 on the basis of a date engraved on a large window and in all likelihood, always adhering to another date present in the liturgical complex, this building was adapted into a lazaret when Agnone was struck by a plague.
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