Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Grazie di Rocchetta Sant’Antonio

The religious building is of sixteenth-century origin and has a simple plastered facade embellished with a stone portal, on the top of which there is a gable with volutes, in late Baroque style, and then later addition.

The Church houses the homonymous Confraternity and until the earthquake of 1930 at its side stood a small convent, where the friars also raised beasts of burden, which rented to the inhabitants of the village for work in the fields. In the small convent there was probably also a guesthouse, as evidenced by the shell (symbol of the Pilgrims) engraved on the portal of access to the present sacristy.

Rocchetta rises on the pilgrimage road, called La Via del Padre (San Guglielmo da Vercelli, founder of the Abbeys of Monte Vergine and Goleto), which connected the Via Appia to the Tratturo Regio Pescasseroli-Candela. The interior of the Church has only one nave; on the high altar you can admire the canvas and the statue of the Madonna delle Grazie; while the four lateral altars welcome the canvases of the Blessed Virgin of Carmine and of the Holy Trinity and the statues of Saint Gerard and Saint Gabriel.