The collegiate church of Santa Maria Maggiore dates from the fifth century and was built on the foundations of a pagan temple dedicated to Venus in Alatri.
The renovations in 1200 give it the current appearance of the French Gothic with a large rose window built in the early fourteenth century by French workers.
The special feature of this rose is to have an internal part of square form reminiscent of a Church of Lausanne in Switzerland.
The interior of the church is in the Romanesque style and there are some important works of art such as the Madonna of Constantinople, a polychrome wooden sculpture of the thirteenth century, the triptych of the Redeemer by Antonio da Alatri, to the Virgin and Child with St. Saviour (from first half XV century) and the baptismal font of the thirteenth century.
The bell tower was added in 1394, it was higher and ended with a pyramidal roof; it was lowered after the collapse caused by an earthquake.
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