Close to Mount Calpazio, at 243 meters above sea level, stands the Sanctuary of the "Madonna del Granato", dating back to the tenth century, whose construction is linked, according to tradition, to a miraculous apparition of the Madonna, who showed herself with the Child in her arms and a pomegranate in her hand.The building, which has undergone numerous interventions and renovations and a restoration in 1708, is one of the main landmarks of Capaccio Vecchia, the village destroyed by the armies of Frederick II at the end of the thirteenth century and abandoned by the inhabitants to escape the massacre.ull’altare Maggiore, the statue of Our Lady of the pomegranate – which recalls in the pomegranate iconography of Hera (Juno).Some think that here moved, in Christian forms, the pagan cult of Hera, the wife of Zeus
