Churches & Places of Worship

The foundation of the church of St. John the Baptist in Morlupo dates back to the ninth century.

It was completely renovated in the sixteenth century by Antimo Orsini.

The church has a single nave with side chapels in the style of the epoch.

The external staircase dates back to 1922 and the last restoration was to remove the nineteenth-century false wooden ceiling.
 

The church of Jesus and Mary in Moricone was consecrated in 1639.

It is just a building shaped like a hut and its only decoration is the marble frame of the gateway.

The interior consists of a single nave with the ceiling in the shape of a covered barrel, with three side chapels.

The convent was built on behest of Prince Borghese, nephew of Pope Paul V, to host an order of nuns and their centre and to provide free girls education.

The convent was then looted by French troops of Napoleon, who sold it in 1810.

It returned to the Curia, and from 1839 hosts the Passionist Fathers.

The church is located in the centre of the town of Moricone and was realised by Sister Columba.

Inside you will find some valuable paintings, an altarpieceof the Assumption and Our Lady of the Rosary.

The church of St. Leonard of Noblat in Montorio Romano has a Romanesque style and dates back to the fourteenth century.

Its simple façade is flanked by a belfry.

Inside there are frescoes of the same period.

Recently two other frescoes have been brought to light.

They two depict the Annunciation and two Saints, dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth century, the work of Torresani brothers.

The church of Christ the King in Montorio Romano was built in 1934.

It was created on an existing foundation, dedicated to SS. Annunziata and Christ the King.

The windows, reproducing the symbols of the virtues and the sacraments, are the work of the brothers Mellini of Florence.

Inside there are eighteenth century frescoes.

Church of San Rocco

The church of San Rocco in Monterotondo was built by enlarging a simple chapel holding an image of the Virgin, that was built outside the town walls.

This chapel was the destination of pilgrims who came from all over to ask for the grace of Our Lady.

The story says that the inhabitants of the village began to seek benevolence to this image that began to "rain down" on them a flood of graces and blessings.

For this it was called Maria Santissima of the Flood of Graces.

Thus was born the San Rocco church that holds the image.
 

The church of Our Lady of Grace is the oldest church in Monterotondo.

It dates back to before 1448, when the nearby monastery was built.

The Romanesque façade was remodeled over the years.

Inside it houses one of the most famous tombs of Latium of the fifteenth century and the statues of St. Clare and St. Francis.

The order of Capuchin friars was approved by Pope Clement VII Medici in 1528 and in Monterotondo is one of the first monasteries was built, in 1609.

In 1703, the convent of the Minor Capuchin Friars it hosted St. Crispin of Viterbo who performed miracles here and you can still see the water well springing from his garden.

Garibaldi used the monastery as his headquarters in 1849 and 1867 and the effect of a cannon shot on the building can be seen.

In the early twentieth century, the friars opened a school of theology and philosophy, and during World War II have been very active in supporting the populations of Monterotondo and Mentana.