The church and monastery of St Mary of the victory are located in the lower part of Percile, near the Aliucci spring and where the municipal cemetery is located today.
Its name and its construction seem to date back to the victory of Charles of Anjou over Conradin of Swabia in nearby Tagliacozzo in 1268. The Angevins had been called by the pope to support him during the struggles between the papacy and the German empire Federico Barbarossa and his descendants.
The story goes that Charles of Anjou had seven churches built dedicated to Saint Mary to commemorate his victory by choosing to place them in the places where his army had stopped.
The church of Saint Mary was built in the Middle Ages on the remains of an ancient Roman temple dedicated to the goddess Alecia and some capitals and portions of the floor can be recognized in the monastery garden.
The interior of the church, on the other hand, appears in the Gothic style with a wooden trussed ceiling and adorned only by a few plaques on the walls.
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