Art and CultureChurch, Monastery and Convent, Castelnuovo della Daunia

Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena e Convento dei Frati Minori

Once stood in the open countryside the sacred complex that includes the Convent of the Friars Minor and the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena.

The place

Today they are incorporated in the town, at its northern end, at the end of a beautiful tree-lined avenue. Convent and Church date back to the second half of the sixteenth century (1579) and their building to the will of the Marquis Don Francesco de Sangro, whose coat of arms can be found on the frame of the canvas depicting the "Madonna with Mary Magdalene and Blessed Oderisio de' Sangro", placed in the apse, which on the stalks of the vault overlooking the high altar.

The exterior of the Church is simple in lines but enriched by the cladding in exposed stone bricks and the precious portal in "mixed stone" finely carved example of Romanesque Apulian recovered from the convent of San Matteo in Scurgola. The interior, very impressive, with three naves, reveals traces of the reworking of the eighteenth century that have covered the simple architectural lines of the pillars and vaults with incredible ornamental stucco. Here you can admire an eighteenth-century organ with decorated balustrade, the statue of the Immaculate Conception by Paolo Saverio Di Zinno in 1763, as well as numerous paintings of the late 1600s attributed to Benedetto Brunetti. The convent instead is characterized by a beautiful sixteenth-century cloister and the exhibition of sacred furnishings, paintings and reliquaries of the hall "Trotta'' on the first floor.



Location

Piazzale Trotta, Castelnuovo della Daunia

The village

Castelnuovo della Daunia

On a high hill, overlooking the Valley of the Fortore river, stands the village of Castelnuovo della Daunia originally called Castrum Sclavorum.

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