The medieval church of Saint Mary Assumption in Vitorchiano, with its Romanesque bell tower, is the oldest in the town.
You enter through a simple facade or through a particular side door in Gothic style with a finely worked stone tympanum with the symbol of the Eucharist in the center and which protects a fresco of the Virgin.
The interior has a nave and near the altar there is a choir with a seventeenth-century organ on a stone balcony decorated with geometric motifs.
The church houses many works of art including 16th-century frescoes, such as the Madonna enthroned with child, 17th-century canvases and a 16th-century peperino baptismal font.
Santa Maria Assunta: religious heart of the town
Santa Maria is the pulsating center of the town and along the central nave it is possible to admire the processional machine with which the image of the Assumption into Heaven is transported during the procession of August 14th along the streets of the town.
The machine dates back to the 17th century and is made of gilded and silvered carved wood. Above the base on which the statue is placed, putti can be recognized in the act of worshiping the Madonna, a stylization of clouds ending with a crown and a series of candelabra for evening lighting.
During the Easter period, then, in this church is placed the statue of the Risen Christ with a white robe and the raised arm with the cross.
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