Chiesa di San Domenico

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Church monument that takes you back in time.

Beautiful church in 1300, and the internal structure of a single nave covered by a gabled roof. Inside the paintings of 1400 rittraggono San Domenico life. There is also a beautiful organ of great value. There is a beautiful square cloister with arches, and an adjacent convent where there were the Dominicans. Now a part of the structure hosting the archive status.

The Aprutina Church of San Domenico was built starting from 1317 in grandiose forms with the annexed convent complex to which it was lit through the cloister. The complex, completed in 1407, was closed in the early nineteenth century due to the Napoleonic edict. The church was restored, returned to the Dominican friars in 1931 and reopened for worship at the behest of the Teramo historian Francesco Savini, whose tomb-mausoleum is located in the right aisle. The internal structure of the church is composed in the lengthening of a single nave, covered by a gabled ceiling, and ends in the choir, with a square base, covered by a vault. The walls are covered with rich frescoes and, not long ago, paintings from the 1400s that represent some scenes from the life of San Domenico have been brought to light. On the side of the main altar, in two aedicules of the Renaissance period, there is a Madonna in gilded and painted terracotta on the left and on the right a group in polychrome stucco representing the family of Sant'Anna and San Gioacchino. In the church there is also a valuable organ. Adjacent to the church is the 18th century Chapel of the Most Holy Rosary with frescoes and stuccoes. The arches of the Cloister remain from the adjacent fourteenth-century convent with some lunettes painted with scenes related to the life of St. Dominic. Much of the rest of the building was the seat of the State Archives, currently there are some offices of the Prefecture. A small part is no longer inhabited by the Dominican friars, but by the Franciscan friars of the Immaculate Conception. Recent earthquakes have inflicted wounds on the Church, as can be seen from the photos.