Art and CultureChurch, Troia

Chiesa di San Domenico di Troia

At the end of the historic center of Troia there is the pretty fourteenth-century Church of San Domenico.

The Church, of fourteenth-century origin, is adjacent to the homonymous Palace, once adjoining monastery and now home to the Hospedale del Cammino that provides shelter to travelers on the Via Francigena.

The exterior of the building is almost bare, with a simple facade that denounces the renovations suffered over the centuries. Originally it also had a beautiful bell tower with an onion cusp, destroyed in 1930 due to an earthquake.

The interior, with a single nave, has a baroque altar and a small chapel on the left side. Here was deposited the impressive canvas of the Trojan artist Giovanni Petruzzi depicting the "Elevation of Saint Benedict to heaven", from the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, previously headed to Saint Benedict. In the original location the canvas decorated, covering it, the vault of the Church of San Domenico. Today the huge canvas is observable up close, as it leans on the left side of the sacred building.

Location

Via Regina Margherita, Troia

The village

Troia

First Aika was a small settlement dedicated to hunting between the fourth and second centuries BC. Then it became Aece, located in the center of a dense road network (Egnathia, Appia-Traiana, Aecae-Sipontum) that connected Rome to the East via Apulia.

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