Pontecorvo. Co-Cathedral of St. Bartholomew

The church of St. Bartholomew is on the highest point of the town of Pontecorvo and was completely rebuilt after the war. The facade was redesigned to look together like the bell tower, the tower of Rodoaldo.

The interior has several recent frescoes of Monzio Compagnone.

In the baptistery and in the nave you can admire some beautiful paintings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and some fragments of sculptures belonged to the previous building: a lion of pre-Christian times, a frieze used as an altar shelf and various limestone panels carved in low relief with symbolic designs.
 


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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