Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno. The Church of S. Rocco

2022

The Church of S. Rocco was built in the first half of the 16th century, with a sandstone portal by M. Giacomo da Varese. Inside, the wooden statue of St. Rocco, by the Ripano sculptor Don Francesco Evangelisti (18th century), and the altar statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (around 1875), by Giorgio Paci from Ascoli.

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