CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA DELLE SELVE E IL CONVENTO DEI CAPPUCCINI

The church of Santa Maria delle Selve stands halfway up Mount Vellizzano to the east in an isolated location and in a beautiful position with a clearing in front overlooking the valley. It was a church of the hamlets of Vicinanzo and Sorbo, defined, at the beginning of the 16th century, as being of ancient origin and located in an area with chestnut and Turkey oak woods. In the second half of the 16th century, a building used as a Convent was built next to the church on a testamentary estate of read more

The church of Santa Maria delle Selve stands halfway up Mount Vellizzano to the east in an isolated location and in a beautiful position with a clearing in front overlooking the valley. It was a church of the hamlets of Vicinanzo and Sorbo, defined, at the beginning of the 16th century, as being of ancient origin and located in an area with chestnut and Turkey oak woods. In the second half of the 16th century, a building used as a Convent was built next to the church on a testamentary estate of the Landolfi family (notary Giovanni Santo Garzillo, 26 March 1577) dominant in the hamlet of Vicinanzo and with the assistance of the Universitas and the Chapter of the Collegiate Church (primicerio Agostino Garzilli). Erected in 1582, with a papal bull by Archbishop Marsilio Colonna and completed in 1585, it was the seat of the Capuchin fathers until 1809 when it was used as an asylum for the poor, and then, in 1830, returned to them. read less