Churches & Places of Worship

Although its origins date back to the eleventh century, the present appearance of the church of San Salvatore was given by the Farnese in 1596 in the general improvement of the whole town of Farnese.

The building has a basilica plan with a single hall and was expanded with a second aisle.

In 1650, the chapel of SS. Sacramento was built hosting the monumental wooden tabernacle donated by Ferrante Farnese in 1603.

The facade was damaged by the bombings of the last war and replaced in the fifties.

Inside there are some XVII century paintings: Solemn Mass of Paul III by Antonio Maria Panico and St. Michael the Archangel by Orazio Gentileschi

The church of Our Lady Pietrafitta was built in Faleria in 1599 by the Anguillara where a sarcophagus was found, then placed under the main altar.

The church has a special shape with a central plan, inspired by the shapes of the first early Christian and Byzantine churches.

Its style heralds some forms of Baroque architecture.

The central plan was typical of the early pagan shrines and later Christianity has used it baptisteries.

Inside there are frescoes and decorations and in the apse you can see the image of an iconic Black Madonna.

The church of San Giuliano Ospitaliere in Faleria dates from the thirteenth century and was rebuilt several times, while the first document that mentions it is from 1257.

Of the original church of the twelfth century remains the massive outer walls decorated with carved marble pieces that come from Roman monuments.

The building has three naves with side chapels, and the central nave ends with an apse with wooden choir stalls surrounding the high altar.

In the thirteenth century it had a magnificent cosmatesco floor with marble inlays that formed geometric designs, of which only a rosette behind the central portal remains.

In the sixteenth century the church was rebuilt by Count Everso Anguillara, who changed the architectural order and arrangement of the altar.

Anguillara also built the sumptuous chapel of St. John the Baptist with finely crafted marble and with a fresco of St. John and the Resurrection in the centre of which is the coat of arms of the family.

Travertine portals were also built that fit wonderfully into the facade of the church.

The engraved Latin inscriptions, due to their extreme simplification, are difficult to interpret.

The Romanesque bell tower was built in 1504 and has two levels of closed mullioned windows and, at the top, three rows of mullioned windows with columns.

The big bell dates from 1343, the smallest from 1504 and are still operating.
 

The Cistercian abbey of Santa Maria in Fabrica di Roma was built in the second half of the twelfth century by monks from France.

The building integrates with its surroundings and with the mighty walls of the ancient city of Falerii Novi.

The church has five apses and three naves separated by pillars and marble columns with capitals recovered from Roman monuments.

The portal was added later and is the work of the family of Lorenzo and Jacopo della Cosmati.
 
 

The church of San Silvestro in Fabrica di Roma is very old and in 1177 is included in a list of the properties of the monastery of St. Elias that says "San Silvestri in Castrum Fabricae".

The building was included in the defensive system of the village and the church was used only a little in the late thirteenth and fourteenth century.

In the 1400s it was expanded and became the parish church of Fabrica, as determined by the indulgence concessions granted by Alexander VI Borgia.

Existing forms of the church date back to the last modifications of the eighteenth century.

Inside, in the apse, is a vast sixteenth-century fresco depicting the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, the Flagellation and Paradise, and attributed to the brothers Lorenzo and Bartolomeo Torresani or to Taddeo Zuccari. Under the central altar are the relics of San Giustino Martyr.
 

The church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Fabrica di Roma dates from the late fifteenth century.

It has an octagonal plan that was to be covered by a dome, which has not been achieved. It has a longitudinal nave body.

This is a simple country church of Our Lady of Grace of Corchiano with a striking central altar in the Baroque style.

The Romanesque church of St. Anthony in Corchiano was built in 1428 and inside is an interesting painting of the trial of Jesus.