Cappella dell'Addolorata

Unique panorama

Fantastic panorama

Also a nice view of the landscape ...

Info about the place: Sacred building in honor of the Addolorata at 1600 meters high. The chapel has been restored and embellished with hand painted paintings. In the area surrounding the church we find an iron cross lit up during the night and a picnic area with tables. Events: - Festa del Gonfalone every second Sunday in July; - Christmas torchlight procession, December 24th.

From an article written in 1935: "The house of God on the summit of Mount Gonfalone With a simple and intimate ceremony, in the great sun of the mild spring day, in the presence of the luxuriant nature, the pious and zealous priest Don Nicola Mainella proceeded on the afternoon of 11 June to the blessing of the laying of the first stone of the elegant chapel that will rise in the next July, next to the monumental Cross, dominating the daring peak of Mount Gonfalone, compact and iron like the will of him who, with the creation of the Cross and the Chapel, wanted to animate him with a vibrant pulse of faith and patriotism. "Faith patriotism is the flag of the new Atlantic". Thus he admonished the illuminated wisdom of the Duce. After the ceremony, held in a mystical solemnity, full of that subtle malia that only the liturgy can give, the Reverend Mainella, surrounded by believers and builders, with his colorful word that can search the streets of the heart, explained the high meaning of the ceremony and pointed out the pride and honor that comes to the town of Frosolone from the construction of this sacred building dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, destined to become a destination for frequent and numerous pilgrimages, especially if, with the priodical work of the people, will be improved the difficult conditions of the road warning. The architectural part was designed by the good engineer Don Domenico Prezioso, assisted, for the technical part, by that master of the building that Mr. Luigi Faella, both of Sant 'Elena Sannita. The chapel, which is eight meters in length, four meters wide and five meters high, will have such a proportion of line, a beautiful game of blocks carved out of the viscera of the mountain itself, to make the perspective view point. On the marble altar, a small temple with slender members, will point out to the devotees something more precious: in fact it is the house full of light of the Eucharist. Simplicity and purity of lines will be the merit of the chapel, the narrow abode of God, where the sun is smiling jokingly at the blazing light of the Gonfalone. This sacred building was there at 1600 meters above sea level, on that summit surrounded by light green and rural flowers, which rushes into space like a hyperbolic rose, like an immense altar raised to an unknown God. Such a work was imposed on the summit of the main mountain of this coquettish little town, lying softly at the feet of its Gonfalone, and where art blossoms like a flower, between the industrious rhythm of the sounding workshops, between the spurt of dazzling sparks under the powerful blow of the mallet. And when, in the hour of sunset, on the hills and in the villages the fires and the lights are lit, that temple sacred to the pain, under the shadow of the Cross it will appear like a star that guides the sailors along the seas without borders. And the wayfarers, seeing from the open that burning of light burning on the top of the blessed mountain, will certainly mark themselves. Because there is the mother in trouble, who went beyond the storms of human ingratitude and found on the path of his own blood, in the supreme spasm of pain, the sure route to regenerate and redeem the superb humanity, wandering in error. Because from that peak sanctified by the Cross, an outstanding work of art and faith, part of that ray of light, towards which converge the glances of the youth of Italy renewed traveling to the shores of the torrid zone, where the power and civilization of new Rome, call together the ranks of the brave, claiming our rights. In this light of faith and hope, stands the chapel on the Gonfalone. Frosolone 22.06.1935 Luigi.T (Web)