Churches
Santa Maria a Sicille
TREQUANDA
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Built in 1263, it has a façade with regular stone ashlars and an architraved portal surmounted by a pointed arch. The salients of the gabled roof are decorated with brick-lined cornices; the bell gable is from the eighteenth century.
On the architrave is an inscription enclosed by two Maltese Crosses - the ancient symbol of the Templars -, while the eye is surmounted by the Olivetan coat of arms because after the suppression of the chivalric order the Abbey passed to the Olivetan Monks.
Inside, with a single rectangular hall and a wooden truss roof, there are two fifteenth-century frescoes depicting the "Madonna with Child and Saints Peter and Paul and Saint Jerome Enthroned and Saints Sebastian and Benedict".
Historical insight by Augusto Codogno
Built in 1263, it has a façade with regular stone ashlars and an architraved portal surmounted by a pointed arch. The salients of the gabled roof are decorated with brick-lined cornices; the bell gable is from the eighteenth century.
On the architrave is an inscription enclosed by two Maltese Crosses - the ancient symbol of the Templars -, while the eye is surmounted by the Olivetan coat of arms because after the suppression of the chivalric order the Abbey passed to the Olivetan Monks.
Inside, with a single rectangular hall and a wooden truss roof, there are two fifteenth-century frescoes depicting the "Madonna with Child and Saints Peter and Paul and Saint Jerome Enthroned and Saints Sebastian and Benedict".
Historical insight by Augusto Codogno