Montelanico. Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso

Montelanico. Church of Santa Maria del Soccorso

The church of Santa Maria del Soccorso is located in Montelanico at the foot of the village near the river Rio. 

It owes its name to the discovery of a painting of the Virgin of the fifteenth century.

Legend has it that the icon was found by a farmer while ploughing his field.

On the site of the discovery initially a chapel was erected before then being enlarged and transformed into a church in 1636.
 


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