Oratorio di Santa Maria in Valle
Nome | Descrizione |
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Indirizzo | Fuori dall'abitato di Bogogno, al confine con Agrate Conturbia BOGOGNO (NO) |
Web | https://www.comune.bogogno.no.it/it-it/vivere-il-comune/cosa-vedere/chiesa-di-santa-maria-in-valle-9 |
It stands outside the village at the boundary with the municipal territory of Agrate Conturbia in locality “Minerva”. The toponym supports the hypothesis that a pagan temple stood there in Roman age, while a votive stone dedicated to Diana, and now preserved at the Cathedral Museum of Novara, was found out just here around the end of the XIX century. A small cemetery where the deceased of Agrate and Bogogno were buried was next to the oratory. The only thing remaining today is an ossuary. The apsidal basin is entirely painted in fresco with paintings dating back to late in the XV century and early in the XVI century. The Christ in mandorla with symbols of the Evangelists are depicted, in the lower part one can admire a Madonna del Latte with Child and theory of Saints with scrolls, work of an artist from Novara
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Alla scoperta di antichi Oratori Campestri…
ATL della Provincia di Novara
Nelle suggestive campagne novaresi, tra dolci declivi delle colline coperte di viti e sulle sponde del lago d'Orta e del lago Maggiore si possono ritrovare piccoli oratori, testimonianze di un passato in cui arte e fede erano strettamente legate tra loro.