The church of the Madonna of Capocroce is located in the place where there was a small aedicule dedicated to the Madonna.
Legend has it that in 1527 this image had miraculously stopped the horde of Lanzichenecchi from the Sack of Rome which was about to attack Frascati thanks to the apparition of the Madonna. The church was built in 1612 by Girolamo de Rossi as a thank you.
Only the facade and the bell tower were saved from the ferocious bombings of the Second World War which destroyed a large part of the historic center of Frascati. The whole church was then rebuilt in the fifties following the original Baroque style of the interior.
The facade is very simple in plaster, it is enriched by an image of the Madonna and ends with a tympanum. The interior has a Latin cross plan with the single central nave overlooked by four chapels, two on each side.
The image of the Madonna and Child painted in oil on a metal plate is the object of devotion of the faithful and reproduces the ancient fresco destroyed by the bombings.
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