Teano. Church of San Francesco.
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Teano. Church of San Francesco. Built in the fourteenth century, in Gothic style, by the Conventual Minors it was extensively remodeled in the Baroque age.
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Casertavecchia, the Cathedral
The church, dedicated to San Michele Arcangelo, stands in a medieval village of Lombard origin located on the top of a hill, at 401 meters on the slopes of the Tifatini Mountains. The town is a hilly hamlet located about 10 kilometers from the capital and is today called "Caserta vecchia" or Casertavecchia but in the Middle Ages simply "Caserta" (originally Casa Hirta) before the name passed to the center on the plain (previously called Torri, then Caserta new and finally Caserta). Casertavecchia was an important fortified center, the seat of a Lombard county, later Norman, and the seat of a diocese, after the destruction, in the early Middle Ages, of the ancient episcopal seat of Calatia (near the current Maddaloni).
2017
Pietrelcina (BN), church of Santa Maria degli Angeli
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The Sanctuary of Montevergine (AV)
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Gallo Matese, the lake
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Monumental Complex of San Leucio
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Roccamonfina. The Sanctuary of Maria SS dei Lattani
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Caserta, the Royal Palace
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Vairano Patenora. Collegiate Church of St. Thomas
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Teano. Church of San Francesco.
Built in the fourteenth century, in Gothic style, by the Conventual Minors it was extensively remodeled in the Baroque age. The magnificent gilded wooden ceiling with one hundred finely carved coffers, with outlines decorated with wreaths of painted roses, for the splendor of the gilded mass wins the comparison with many other similar works. The panel in the center of the ceiling (St. Francis and the council), in which the popes Pius XII, John XXIII and Paul VI and the late bishop of Teano Mons. Sperandeo are depicted, is a modern work by Augusto De Rose. On the entrance door there is a large canvas of the Immaculate Conception by Girolamo Cenatiempo (first half of the 18th century).