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Church
SS. ANNUNZIATA
The
Benedictine monastery (today seat of the Town hall) was founded
in 1557.
The works to reconstruct it probably ended in 1586 as we read
from a stone plaque put on a wall facing on Roma Street, where
is carved out the monogram of the Annunciation AGP (Ave Gratia
Plena) and the symbol of "Calitri's Universitas":
the three roses. The patronage on the monastery was held by
Calitri's universitas.
Next to the monastery there's the Church of the Annunziata,
dated from the sixteenth century and characterized by the
renaissance portal with lunette inspired to the architecture
of Romanesque style. It was opened (for the cult) on the 11th
of February, 1571.
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Inside
the church we can see an eighteenth century altar made of
wood and some sculptures of Pietro Nittoli from Lioni that
represent Our Lady of Annunziata and the Angel of the Annunciation.
There is one more wood altar dated from XVII century and a
sculpture that represents Our Lady with Jesus.
There are also two niches where once there were two statues,
one of them represented S.Benedetto, Patron of the order of
the monastery that today is inside the church of St.Canio.
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