The Church of of Our Lady of the Assumption - Santa Maria Assunta was the first of Gerano church built in the ninth century with the 'Castrum' where people had taken refuge to escape the Barbarians.
It was in the Gothic style and had a separate bell tower. From a story by the Bishop of Tivoli in 1581 it states that the church was a small square building with wooden roof and no floor.
In 1625 and 1675 the church was burned, and in the seventeenth century a first upgrade was completed and in 1850 the current neoclassical building designed by the architect G. Valadier, was built.
The majestic church houses some masterpieces of painting including a painting of the Madonna of the Rosary and a silver reliquary of the school of Bernini.
The most important part is an oil painting on canvas of Madonna del Cuore (Our Lady of the Heart) from 1727 by Sebastiano Conca from Gaeta.
This is considered miraculous, and in her honour every year from 1770 an incredible Flower Festival has been created along the streets of the town, the oldest flower festival in Italy.
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