Religious Places

Rossano and The little church of Panagia

The little church-oratory of Panaghìa (in Greek Tutta Santa), dedicated to the Madonna, is a Byzantine construction of the 10th-11th century, with a semicircular apse facing east, whose exterior, made of bricks and stones, has a herringbone decoration and triangles, typically Byzantine like the capitals of the mullioned windows. The interior, with a wooden trussed roof, has a rectangular plan, with a single nave (m.7 x m.4.50), and takes light from six double lancet windows. To the right of the apse there is an admirable fourteenth-century fresco depicting St. John Chrysostom holding a scroll in Greek, as well as traces of a fresco depicting St. Basil. There is also a painting of the Visitation of the sixteenth century.

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