Sermoneta is a hill town and comune in the province of Latina ( Lazio ), central Italy.
6-598: It is a walled hill town, with a 13th-century Romanesque church, the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta (sometimes erroneously called a cathedral) and a massive castle , built by the Annibaldi family then purchased and expanded by Caetani family in the 13th century. The Cistercian Valvisciolo Abbey is located nearby. The churches of San Giuseppe (mainly 16th century) and San Michele (mainly 12th century) still stand. A Jewish community engaged in
12-402: A Gothic style. The church has a tall square bell-tower with rounded arches. The Gothic portico leads to a nave supported by marble columns. The lunette of the portico was frescoed in the 15th century with a Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Epaphroditus and Christ and four angels by Pietro Colaberti of Piperno. The interior chapels also have frescoes. The first chapel on the right
18-532: Is often referred to as a cathedral ("cattedrale") but has never been the seat of a bishop. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . The church is documented for the first time in the 12th century (1149–60). A palaeo-Christian church was possibly first built in the 5th century over a temple dedicated to the pagan goddess Cybele . The Romanesque church was refurbished in the next century in
24-558: The commerce of fish and lending is attested there from the 13th to the 16th centuries, when the community was removed following Pope Pius V 's papal bull of expulsion, Hebraeorum gens sola (1569), which restricted Jewish residency to Rome and Ancona . Sermoneta is the hometown of the humanist Aldo Manuzio and eighteenth-century painter Antonio Cavallucci . Scenes of the 2007 film Silk featuring Keira Knightley were filmed in Sermoneta. The 2015 short film Italian Miracle
30-576: Was filmed in the town. In 1978, an episode of Return of the Saint was filmed there: the town was known as Santa Maria. This Lazio location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Sermoneta The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta ( Italian : Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, Sermoneta ) is a Gothic church located in Sermoneta , southern Lazio , Italy. The church
36-519: Was refurbished in the 1590s by the De Marchis family. The wall frescoes depict contemporary figures such as Carlo Borromeo and the donors. The main altarpiece, the Madonna degli Angeli (c. 1452), is attributed to Benozzo Gozzoli . Other sources attribute the work to the time after a plague epidemic or earthquake in 1456–57 . The church also has frescoes attributed to Bernardino Cesari depicting
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