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The Church of Santa Maria in Sicille

The Church of Santa Maria in Sicille is still operating with the celebration of regular Masses and weddings.

The Santa Maria a Sicille church was built in 1263, as engraved in its facade with regular stone ashlars and the portal architrave surmounted by a pointed arch.

The salients of the gabled roof are decorated with notched brick cornices; the bell gable is 18th-century. On the architrave is an inscription enclosed by two Maltese crosses – the ancient symbol of the Templars – while the eye is surmounted by the Olivetan coat of arms because after the suppression of the chivalric order, the Abbey passed to the Olivetan monks.

Inside, a single rectangular hall with a wooden truss roof, are two 15th-century frescoes depicting the Madonna and Child and Saints Peter and Paul and Saint Jerome enthroned and Saints Sebastian and Benedict.