The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie dates back to the fourteenth century, when the population of the castle began to look for more comfortable places to live closer to the fields and began to form the village of Caprile, and the church was called "Visitation of the Blessed Virgin".
The original Romanesque style of the church can still be glimpsed in the facade and in the external forms.
The current church was restored in 1759 (as one reads on a plaque inside) and its style is influenced by neoclassical style.
Outside, along the side, you can see a large fresco of 1625 representing St. Christopher.
On the lunette above the entrance door to the church you can see a fresco of a Madonna with Child dating back to the fifteenth century.
The interior has only one nave and at the four corners there are 'coretti' which you can reach with stairs.
The style is neoclassical with some Baroque influence in the decorations of stuccos, friezes and ornaments.
The church has two altars: the side one next to the wall has the tabernacle and is adorned with an oil painting on a panel depicting the Madonna of the Rosary.
This work is framed by fourteen panels of the Way of the Cross that date back to 1586.
Behind the high altar there is a 16th century painting representing the 'Visitation' by Fabrizio Santafede, from the Neapolitan School.
Other very important works are a very revered statue of the Madonna del Rosario, carved from pear wood and dating back to the early sixteenth century.
The painted wood statue of San Vincenzo Ferreri, which dates back to the eighteenth century.
Above the entrance door, in the choir, there is an imposing organ built in 1865 by Pietro Saraceni.
The church has two impressive bell towers: the lower one is more recent and has two splendid clocks, the taller one has four bronze bells that make the tolls seem heard throughout the Valle del Liri.
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