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CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA OF VALLE IN SCANNA AQUILA ABRUZZO

Church of Santa Maria della Valle in Scanna Aquila Abruzzo, also known as the Lady of the Assumption, has three naves and is supported by two pillars with cusps places to reinforce the structure after the 1915 earthquake.

The exterior, made of local stone, is in Abruzzo Romanesque style.

The horizontally crowned facade has three portals with over many rosettes, of which the central one is the biggest.

Inside, in the first column after the entrance, you can see traces of medieval frescoes, while in the presbytery over a polychrome altar there is a wooden choir.

The confessional and the pulpit, always made of wood, are the artist Ferdinando Mosca of Pescocostanzo.

The right of the chapel is dedicated to San Costanzo and preserves a relic arrived in Scanno around the eighteenth century, when the catacombs in Rome were opened and the unknown martyrs who were baptized with the names of the virtues.

Seat, one of the most beautiful towns in Italy, can be reached from Pescara, L'Aquila and Rome through the A25 motorway exit of Cocullo and State Road 479 Sannite dating back to the Sagittarius Gole through Anversa degli Abruzzi and Villalago.

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