The Collegiate Church of the Most Holy Mary Annunziata originally was part of the "castrum" of the lords of Fumone and its first mention dates back to the 12th century.
At the end of the 18th century it was completely restored and in 1781 Pope Pius VI raised it to collegiate.
During the nineteenth century, the church underwent further modifications that led to the assumption of the current forms.
The neoclassical façade is characterized by two imposing pilasters of giant size, framing the portal with its bezel and a rectangular window. Next to the church there is a mighty bell tower.
The church has two naves, and inside it there is a canvas of the Buttaragi of 1786, representing the Annunciation.
The lower nave ends with the chapel of SS. Sacramento in which is housed the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Assistance, an icon venerated since 1886.
At the center of the ceiling of the main aisle is the fresco depicting the death of Pope Celestino V while opposite to the facade there is the organ, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, that has recently been restored.
From the original church remains the baptismal font and the sixteenth-century wooden statue of the patron Saint Sebastian.
Among the noteworthy works of art, but not visible in the church, are: the amazing 14th century silver cross, the 14th century gold diptych with numerous relics, a late baroque silver sculpture of the patron Saint Sebastian made in 1697 by the jeweller Giovanni Giardini, on the model of the famous sculptor Camillo Rusconi.
The new wooden altar, made towards the end of the twentieth century, is the work of the local master Paolino Cialone.
(Alessandro Potenziani)
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