CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE IN CARAMANICO TERME PESCARA

Caramanico Terme, Church of St. Thomas the Apostle in lthough called Saint Thomas Becket Romanesque church of the thirteenth century.

The present building stands on a church already mentioned in the ninth century, and was surrounded by other monastic buildings now decadent.

The plant has three naves and has three elevation levels, the lower entrance, the upper leads from the altar apse central and has a small crypt with a central well of spring water.

The salient façade is punctuated by three doors and four half, the residue of a porch ever made, with a central rose window and two small single-light.

The side doors have doorposts and lintel with floral decorations like the overhanging single windows and the lintel of the main door is decorated with a relief (almost full relief) of the twelve apostles with Christ Central stunned, by the remarkable sculptural quality for its time, year 1118 and shown below.

Within the aisles are divided by columns composite, right, and columns square, on the left, there is also a thin monolithic stone column with a Corinthian capital, called holy column, venerated by the faithful, whose fragments were removed boasting miraculous properties.

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CHURCH OF ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE IN CARAMANICO TERME PESCARA

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