Religious Places

Mount San Biagio: the Church of Our Lady of the Snow

Before reaching the top of Mount San Biagio, there is the solitary Church of the Madonna della Neve also called Madonna degli Ulivi, with a single nave, which preserves inside interesting frescoes that came to light during recent restoration works. In the apse basin you can see the figure of Christ Pantocrator, unfortunately headless, in Byzantine style, flanked in the two side niches by a Madonna and Child and a figure of Saint, probably Saint Catherine of Alexandria. On the right wall there is another well-preserved fresco of a Madonna and Child from the 14th century. The new altar is entirely carved in a single olive tree root.

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