The church of Santa Vittoria is located outside the historic center of Pisoniano.
According to tradition, it was built around the sixth century AD in the place where Santa Vittoria and her sister Anatolia took refuge during the persecutions of the emperor Decius around the third century AD.
A walled epigraph on the entrance door recalls a rebuilding that took place in 1681. The current appearance of the church is due to renovations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
On the main altar there is an 11th century table depicting Holy Victory carrying a dragon tied to a rope while blessing the population with the other hand.
According to a local legend, in fact, the saint saved the local population by asking for a dragon that spread terror and that had brought the plague in the municipalities around Ciciliano.
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