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C.I. SAN VALENTINO IN ABRUZZO CITERIORE
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Via Badia 28, Sulmona
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Via Badia 28, Sulmona
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Welcome to the Church of Saint Anthony
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The church, dating from 1715, has a Baroque façade with two orders, a curved pediment, and a small bell gable. The interior, with a layout reminiscent of a Greek cross, is rich in Ionic capitals, rosettes, stuccoes, and typically Baroque panels, above which is a very low dome with a stucco cross and stars. Noteworthy features include the original stone floor, the barrel vault, and the lowered dome. On the main altar there is a wooden tabernacle crafted by artisans known as "maestri marangoni," that is, cabinetmaker-carpenters of Venetian origin, who between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries formed almost a school of art not only in Abruzzo but in almost all regions of Italy. Inside, there is a small pipe organ with three bays separated by fluted pilasters, of the Neapolitan school (18th century), placed on the choir loft on the counter-façade. The portal is richly decorated with reliefs in local stone. On the architrave, one can see a Latin inscription D. ANTONII ABBATI DICATUM GLORuS A MDCCXV of a sacred nature. Among the paintings: Immaculate Virgin between Saints Nicholas of Bari and Anthony of Padua (Marino Franchi 1848?), Saint Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori (Marchiani 1849), Franciscan saint, Death of Saint Joseph (Tito Orlando 1849), Distaff with male figure and Distaff with female figure.
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