Church of Saint Andrew
The original construction dates back to the 13th century.
Church of Saint Andrew
The bell tower is civic in appearance.
The former collegiate church of Saint Andrew the Apostle was built in the 13th century for the monks of Fonte Avellana. It was modified in the 17th century. Following the earthquake of 3 June 1781, its upper part was completely rebuilt. The portal of the main entrance is in sandstone. The exterior walls are made of bare, time-worn stone. The original bell tower was completely transformed in false Gothic style in 1927.
The Baroque style, single-nave interior is decorated with paintings in gilt wooden frames. To the left of the entrance is a baptismal font in stucco and wood made in 1690 by Giuseppe Grossi of Bologna. Further on is a highly valuable work in a gilt wooden frame depicting the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, painted by Claudio Ridolfi (1570-1644) between the years 1621 and 1625. Next to it, a wooden altar houses a Baroque style work depicting the Madonna with Saints Sebastian and Lucy.
The high altar, in carved and gilt wood, preserves a precious painting of the Madonna with Saints Andrew and Nicholas of Bari by the Venetian Jacopo Palma il Giovane (1544-1628), with the archpriest Don Andrea Balduzi, who commissioned the work, at the bottom right.
Also of interest is the carved, painted and gilt wooden statue of the Madonna of the Rosary by an anonymous sculptor of the Emilian School, dating from the early 17th century. Well worth noting on the right wall are the Presentation of Mary in the Temple attributed to Girolamo Cialdieri (1593-1646) and the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, a 17th-century work of the Bolognese School. In the choir above the entrance hangs a canvas depicting the Saints Anne, Marianus and James by Giovanni Francesco Ferri (1701-1775).