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Bussi sul Tirino (Pe) - Santa Maria di Cartignano

Often the most fascinating places and monuments require Abruzzo knowledge of the route information and driving instructions visit to be achieved. But in some cases they are accessible to all, in fact, it's really impossible not to notice them from the road on which you travel. One of them you'll find on Bussi, right next to state that 153 Navelli down to the valley, and in addition also has a feature that makes this unique monument. Santa Maria di Cartignano is in fact a church without a roof.

usually is associated with the nearby San Pietro ad Oratorium, hidden in the grove at the foot of the hill of Capistrano, but then it reveals to the visitor throughout his integrity made an incredible material wealth of architecture, sculpture and painting, Santa Maria di Cartignano instead requires a lot of fantasy and imagination for the visit, because in reality the church "there."

Or rather, still stand today, only the bare architectural structures, while missing the roof and all sorts of interior design. But it is always fascinating to visit even if quite different: just close your eyes and it's like reliving the confused and noisy atmosphere of medieval construction, figuring the workers, masons and decorators balancing on precarious scaffolding made of wooden beams linked them, or the same monks intent on nailing the templates for the construction of the arches.

Its current state of ruin is now accepted as an element of the landscape and perhaps more than anyone would think of trying to rebuild. The visitor can raise the attraction for the picturesque landscape dear to the English culture, full of churches now in ruins and no roof, and perhaps the eye of a nineteenth-century observer as Johnn Ruskin would have awakened the wild sense of medieval art. The real tour is to retrace the history and grasp in their imagination its ancient splendor.

His story begins with the year one thousand, in 1021 there was certainly a first church that was dependent on Monte Cassino. In 1065 had already become a monastery. This period certainly the structure we see today, as the three naves, the portal, and the external decoration of the apse, with its arches. For centuries after the documents are silent, but it is certain that in the fourteenth century, the monastery still existed. It is likely that in the first decades of the thirteenth century, perhaps as a result of the same earthquake that devastated Rome in 1231, the church was remodeled.

this occasion were added to the beautiful rose window and bell tower, which rests on the facade. Wandering the historic center of Bussi, the historian Ignacio Gavini discovered a number of sculptures on the facade of the ninth century church of San Lorenzo and suggested that they belonged to the origins of Santa Maria di Cartignano.

the decorations of the medieval church, fortunately, all is not lost: the Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo, L'Aquila in the sixteenth century castle, it still preserves the great fresco from the apse . It represents Blessing Christ enthroned between the Virgin and St. John is dated 1237 and signed by Armanino from Modena. Despite both damaged and missing several parts, is an important document of the thirteenth century painting of the first, also because it tells us the real name of the artist who painted it. In addition to Santa Maria, Bussi offers interesting perspectives for a walk in the historic center.

From cultura.inabruzzo.it