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Built on the ruins of the fin is located on four parcels in his arms, symbolized by four medieval towers. His past is still detectable in his palaces, monuments and churches that make pens an interesting cities. One of the most striking of the city is through the eighteenth century Porta S. Francis, in the midst of opening a niche with a statue of St. Maximum Blessing, patron of the city.
The Cathedral, built on the site of a pagan temple, has an ancient, before the year 1000. In time it has undergone several revisions, the latest being in 1955, after the ravages of war, gave the existing brick façade with the inclusion of elements from the old building as the ogival portal and the rose (XIII- fourteenth century). On the right side opens a portal Renaissance dated 1574. The interior has a Latin cross, is divided into three naves divided by Gothic arches and a roof trusses exposed. Among the works stored here remember the wooden Crucifix (XIII-XIV century) in which arms were detached from the cross of Christ in an attitude of embrace, the Altar of the Bishop Odorisio (1182-1190) and the bust of St. Maximum (where the church is dedicated) silver in 1767. The oldest part of the Cathedral is the crypt dell'IX century, showing the reuse of material from Roman times. The space is divided into five small naves covered by cross vaults, pillars you notice the remains of votive paintings dating between the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Beside the Cathedral is the Episcopal Palace, seat of the Civic and Diocesan Museum of Archaeology "GB Leopardi", which contains only objects of sacred art, a section of archaeological finds from the surrounding area, there are material from the Paleolithic and Neolithic (Leopards Collection ) and interesting materials from the Roman period found in the area. In Piazza del Duomo is also the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art presents a section Roman you enter the beautiful medieval church of San Massimo and then goes to other rooms as the room the silverware and art gallery. The Church of St. Augustine plant thirteenth century, but was remodeled in the '700 and '900. Has a bell tower which in its end has an octagonal prism cuspidate bowls with polychrome see other towers such as Abruzzo Atri. Inside the church, behind the choir, a large fresco of the fifteenth century. The Church of the Annunciation, has a façade, lively and concave inside, all brick and expression of a fine eighteenth-century taste. Inside the works of art recall the Mantle of Christ in velvet and embroidered with precious gold and silver. From this church the procession on Good Friday of the Dead Christ, which winds through the city streets since 1570. The Church of St. Dominic, remodeled in the sixteenth and seventeenth century, has a portal on the seventeenth which is a niche with a Madonna on the Throne of the '400. Inside are several works including a wooden choir Ferdinand Moscow eighteenth century and a shrine iron ivory and silver with the skull of S. Biagio. The Church of St. John the Evangelist preserves the original system the apse and the bell tower decorated with majolica bowls. The interior, a nave, and contains a silver crucifix attributed to Nicholas Guardiagrele and dated 1450. Outside the city lies the beautiful church of St. Benedictine Mary Colleromano, built between two hundred and three hundred and altered over time. Today the original layout preserves the rich portal that presents a Madonna and Child in the lunette of the '300. The interior has three naves separated by pointed arches, has a high altar in gilded wood Baroque and fragments of frescoes of the XV and XVI century.
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