Alvito. Collegiate Church of St. Simeon Prophet

Alvito. Collegiate Church of St. Simeon Prophet

This, the first church dedicated to the Prophet St. Simeon in Alvito dates back to 1100.

Since the beginning has enjoyed many papal privileges.

Of this original church only the bell tower is visible with the church having been redone, for the first time in 1527 and later around 1700 in Alvito.

The collegiate Church of St. Simeon Prophet was enriched with paintings and Baroque frescoes, a dome, a lacunar (coffer decorated) ceiling and a choir worked in wood.


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