Churches & Places of Worship

Colle and San Pancrazio Church of Campoli Appennino is sanctuary of Benedictine origins.

It comes from1521 and is located on a lovely small hill.

It was built by people who wanted a votive chapel after an apparition of the holy martyr to shepherds.

In 1594 it was transformed into the church.

A beautiful wooden statue was added in 1804.

The sacristy is preserved and dates back to 1852 while the bell is from 1857.

Above the altar there is a seventeenth-century painting depicting the martyrdom of San Pancrazio, patron saint of the city,.

The image is carried in procession on the feast day of the town.

The beautiful church of Sant'Andrea Apostolo (St Andrew Apostle) of the fifteenth century.

It is located in the town centre of Campoli Appennino.

The exterior facade was renovated in the nineteenth century.

The floor is made with bright coloured stones known as 'Campoli breccia'.

The interior has a unique nave with ten side chapels with vaults and round arches.

Each chapel has works of art of particular artistic interest.

The church of Madonna of the Chiaie in Broccostella dates from the fifteenth century.

It preserves a valuable fresco depicting the Madonna and Child.

It is a rural church, surrounded by olive groves and immersed in a charming rural setting of Broccostella.

In 1944 some English avant-garde soldiers clashed with the Germans and a 88 mm bullet pierced the vault and ended up on the altar without exploding leaving a still visible mark.
 

The church of Madonna della Stella of Broccostella was designed by architect Giuseppe Zander in the 1960s.

Inside there are three mosaics created by Augustus Ranocchi.
 

The church of Saint Michael Archangel is the main church of Boville Ernica and the chronicles date back to 1125.

The current church was rebuilt in the eighteenth century from a design by Jacopo Subleyras.

The facade is brick, with architectural elements of two orders in stone.

The interior is divided into three naves and contains the so-called "Cappellone", the Filonardi chapel with the tomb of Cardinal Ennio.

On the altar of St. Sebastian is a painting by Cavalier d'Arpino and the altar in front is a painting of Sant'Ermidio, by Sebastiano Conca.

The church of San Michele has many paintings attributed to Reni and Roman painters of the eighteenth century.
 

The church of St. Peter of Spain in Boville Ernica dates from the late sixteenth century and was built on a previous Romanesque chapel.

This chapel had been built on the grotto where Saint Peter of Spain lived for many years.
St. Peter of Spain had fought the Muslims in Spain, where he lived as a hermit in a cave.

Pope Paul V gave decorations belonging to the old building of St. Peter's in the Vatican and among them an angel by Giotto, the famous mosaic "of the spacecraft", a silver bust by Cellini, container of the relic of St. Peter of Spain, two angels of Bregno, a porphyry cross, two gilded plaster bas-reliefs from the seventeenth century, a bas-relief by Sansovino representing originally the maternity of the Virgin Mary, later transformed into the Holy Family, a Nativity and a coronation of the Virgin, seventeenth-century frescoes, and many other paintings and sculptures of the seventeenth century and eighteenth centuries.

Recently a Christian roman sarcophagus of the fourth century has been obtained.
 

The three-nave Church of Santa Maria of Belmonte Castello was consecrated in 1449.

It was consider as a chapel attached to the Church of St. Nicholas.

The original fifteenth-century shapes have been reworked in the eighteenth century with the addition of an external bell.
 

The church of St. Nicholas in Belmonte Castello dates from the twelfth century.

It has splendid frescoes of the fourteenth century.

Today it is in the municipal cemetery.

It is a very simple building, which denotes its plebeian rural church function.