The church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Tuscania is one of the most interesting Romanesque churches in Italy, an example of architecture with exceptional paintings inside.
The church appears for the first time in a papal bull of 852 even though the building was built in several phases and not consecrated until 1206.
The facade detects these different phases that can be found in the variety of decorations and the general asymmetry.
There is a great central rose window with a row of nine small white columns that overlooks the central portal of white marble and the two sides in gray peperino.
The interior has three aisles divided by six bays separated by columns with carved Romanesque capitals and painted pillars.
The apse is painted with a large fresco of the 1300s depicting the Last Judgment and the other two hundred frescoes depicting the Twelve Apostles.
The baptismal font dates back to the thirteenth century and is the 'immersion' type with an octagonal shape.
The bell tower dates from the twelfth century, but the great structure of the base and the disproportionality of the body from the church make one think of a previous building.
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