Churches & Places of Worship

Santa Maria is the church of the Abbey of San Nilo in Grottaferrata and was consecrated in 1024 by Pope John XIX of Tusculum.

The church is brick with the classic Romanesque style with a bell tower and a portico with travertine columns.

The facade has a rose window of the thirteenth century.

Inside it is divided into three naves and at the entrance there is the baptismal font, and a mosaic of the Madonna and St. John the Baptist.

The church has been renovated several times over the centuries.

Inside are frescoes of San Nilo and San Bartolomeo and paintings, only the apse mosaics belonging to the original construction.

In the sixteenth century, with the Farnese family, a coffered ceiling was built and the chapel renewed.

In 1665, Cardinal Barberini built an "apparatus" to adorn the main altar with a thirteenth-century Madonna icon.
 

The Capuchin church and convent are one of the hubs of the 'system of Olmate' initated by Giuliano Cesarini.

The Olmate are an urban revolution in the town of Genzano di Roma that Giuliano Cesarini made around the year 1643.

The church was located at one of the vertices of a triangle with sides made of the olmate avenues.

The architectural characteristics are simple, both outside and inside with a particularly charming cloister.

Paintings and busts of the Cesarini family are a found throughout with paintings depicting the Duke Giuliano III, his brother Philip and Gaetano (eldest son of Livia and Federico Cesarini Sforza).

The Duchess Livia is represented in a beautiful marble bust of 1851.
 

The collegiate church of SS. Trinity in Genzano di Roma is called "New Church" (or "New Cathedral"), as opposed to the "old cathedral", the church of Santa Maria della Cima.

The church begun in 1781 and it is the only one of the Castelli Romani in the neoclassical style

It represents the transition from the medieval town of Genzano di Roma to a modern town.

The church was dedicated to St. Thomas of Villanova.

Inside there are paintings that come from other more ancient religious buildings, creating a sort of collection of "artistic culture" of Genzano.
 

The church of St. Antonino is the oldest in Viticuso and stands on the mountain of the same name.

It was built by the Benedictines of Montecassino, and under the Benedictine symbol of the three hills there is the date of 1003, despite being part of the diocese of Venafro.

It is thought that it was born as an observation post, as it is located on the border between the territory of Montecassino and the county of Venafro.

It later became a chapel and was perhaps initially dedicated to San Cristoforo.

A legend testify to the presence of St. Antonino a Viticuso, who came to visit it from Venafro, and perhaps for this reason the church changed its name.

The story tells that the saint was tired and weary, perhaps because he was chased by brigands, sat on a stone that he chose as his home.

St. Antonino has also become the patron saint of the town.

The current structure dates back to 1898, as engraved on the architrave of the central door.

The church underwent a renovation after the bombing of the Second World War.

The first parish of Viticuso was named St. Maria Assunta, which was called Mother Church.

However, the only archive that would be possible to obtain secure data tap was that of the diocese of Isernia, destroyed by Garibaldi in 1860.

The church was originally built around 1064.

In 1700 appeared completely ruined by age and therefore had to be restored completely and then re-consecrated.

The plan has the form of a Latin cross with a barrel vault and side chapels at the sides of the main nave.

in the town of Villa Santo Stefano, the church of Saint John in Silva Matrice is located in San Giovanni, an area inhabited since prehistoric times as evidenced by several archaeological relics found.

It is a very old church located in the countryside and currently abandoned.

It consists of two churches: a larger one dedicated to the Evangelist John which stands on a pagan sanctuary and a smaller one built in the 15th century and dedicated to John the Baptist.

The building has two naves with a beautiful altar located at the end of the nave.

The church of Villa Santo Stefano was consecrated in 1966 and was dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary.

It was built on the basis of the will of the small communities from Vallecorsa who had settled, since the end of the 1800s on the mountain slopes of Campo Lupino, in a place called Contrada Macchione.

The church has had several improvements over time thanks to the care of the parish priests who alternated in Villa Santo Stefano, starting from Don Luigi Falconi; and the diligence of the artisans and citizens who have laboured for its beautification.

August 29 is the feast of Our Lady of Rosary in Villa Santo Stefano.
 

The Sanctuary of the Madonna of Graces and the Convent of Sant'Angelo in Fortunula was founded in 1595.

Originally it was a small temple after the discovery of the image of the Virgin and Child.

It became a convent in 1715 with the Augustinian Monk, Father Carlo Alfonso De Mercantis, and was enlarged and embellished.