The first construction of the church of St. Elias or Santa Maria la Nova dates back to 1250 at the behest of the priest Don Leonardo Infante from Sant'Elia Fiumerapido.
Don Leonardo built the church it at his expense and he gave funding, books and furniture.
In 1700 the church was enlarged and there were many elements and altars transferred from the abandoned church of San Biagio.
The extension works adopted stones of the old St. Elias church, St. Michael and the ancient medieval walls of Saint Elias.
Outside you notice the characteristic bell tower and tetragonal clock, dual staircase, the plaster façade enriched with a carved stone portal and a sundial.
Inside the church has three naves covered with round arched Romanic style vaults.
One can note the seventeenth-century wooden pipe organ, work of Giuseppe Catarinozzi Affile and the wooden choir inlaid by master carvers of the Mosca di Pescocostanzo family.
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