Roccasecca dei Volsci. Church of Santa Croce

Roccasecca dei Volsci. Church of Santa Croce

The small seventeenth-century church of Santa Croce in Roccasecca dei Volsci is has the classic sober style of the buildings for worship in the country.

It has simple façade and an entrance door with two openings on the sides framed with stone slabs that can be reached through a flight of steps.

There is a round opening in the centre of the façade and a gable roof with brickwork decoration.

The interior is a single space that ends with an altar and a large wooden crucifix.

The stations of the Via Crucis adorn the side walls.


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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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