The church of Mary Most Holy of the Visitation (Maria Santissima della Visitazione) is in Cervara di Roma in a steep area below the remains of the fortress.
It is supported by stone arches, all built from local stone, with a high bell tower.
Some of the rooms under the Church that were once the barn where the peasants brought their money to pay taxes.
Now there is the museum and on the wall we can recognize the calculations for the payment of the dues to the Papal State.
The church is dedicated to the Most Holy Mary of the Visitation and its façade in local stone blends with the mountain. Three entrance doors lead inside and the central one has an elegant frame carved in white marble.
The building was last enlarged in 1872 and its interior is in Baroque style with a single nave covered by a frescoed vaulted ceiling and side chapels.
The nave ends with a richly decorated eighteenth-century altar above which there is a fresco of the crucifixion.
You can admire seventeenth-century works of art such as the paintings dedicated to the Visitation by Vincenzo Vanenti di Orvinio and a Madonna del Carmine.
Under the altar is the body of the town's patron saint Felice, a martyr found in the catacombs of San Callisto in Rome.
In the nearby bell tower there are two bells that show the date of a first casting of 1428 and a recast of 1785.
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