Orte. Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta

Orte. Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta

The church of Santa Maria Assunta in Orte was founded in the ninth century and was rebuilt several times.

In the first half of the fourteenth century and in the second half of the sixteenth century it was enlarged.

ùThen in 1721 it was rebuilt in Baroque style of the architects Castrachini and Bizzacchero.

Inside there is a wooden choir loft, a seventeenth-century monumental altar under which the relics of the Holy Martyrs Joint Patrons are preserved, and an altarpiece by Giuseppe Bottani of 1752 depicting the Madonna in Glory with the eight Holy Martyrs.

The church has an eighteenth century organ built from a previous sixteenth century instrument.
 


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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