Church of Saint Mary of the Announcement

Beautiful church with a fresco of the final judgment to be seen

It is a beautiful church that impresses serenity and religiosity

The stained glass windows and the still preserved frescoes are a fundamental part of its charm

Beautiful and historic church, the frescoes are beautiful. Thanks to the parish priest who allowed me to pay a visit despite the upcoming wedding.

Interesting Gothic-based church, remodeled in later times. It preserves important testimonies of art, including first of all the fresco with the Last Judgment on the internal counter-facade. There are not many such frescoes in the area. The fifteenth-century table with the Annunciation by Angiolillo Arcuccio is also very precious. The portal is from the sixteenth century. Church to visit.

Superb church. Great welcome. A beautiful atmosphere of prayer

Entering Sant'agata de 'Goti for via Caudina, one finds immediately the largo Annunziata, as a flowerbed, in which the church of the Annunziata stands on the right, whose original site dates back to 1238 by Bishop Giovanni. In 1764, S. Alfonso established it as a parish church for the rural population of the Santagata countryside. The main façade unites sixteenth-century and baroque features. The classical composure of the stone portal presents in the lunette the mystery to which the church is dedicated: the announcement to Mary and the Incarnation of the Son of God. The Eternal Father, in the upper cusp, is an integral part of the scene, sculpted in 1563 by good sculptors of the Neapolitan school of Annibale Caccavello. From 1565 it is the great wooden entrance door admirably restored. The interior has a single nave with a quadrangular apse and a trussed ceiling recently reconstructed on residues of the original one. On the nave there are Baroque chapels. The modern stained glass windows, works by the maestro Bruno Cassinari and given to the church in 1976, blend well with the ancient, giving the ecstatic visitor bright and luminous colors. The two semi-arches at the top of the side walls recall the covering made in 1865 to a design by the engineer R. Mosera. The Chapel of St. James, of Baroque style, is the second to the right of those who enter. The altar, carved in 1714, is the work of Lorenzo Fontana; the statue is from 1719 by the sculptor Giovan Battista Antonini. The chapel also had a social function: to provide, through diocesan rents, a dowry for poor girls and to give alms to the needy. The Chapel of S. Biagio is the second on the left and was built in 1619. In 1703 it was enriched with stuccoes and two frescoes by Tommaso Giaquinto depicting Saints in the glory of paradise. The statues of St. Lucy, St. Rocco and St. Joseph are exposed to the veneration of the faithful. The apse has preserved conspicuous fresco traces of stories of saints that the patrons had painted to their devotion. In the blind arches of the left wall we admire some frescoes: the Presentation at the temple and the flight into Egypt. During recent works numerous frescoes have been brought to light and restored: the most important is a universal judgment that covers the counter-façade, with a strong narrative accent, the work of a Campanian artist of the first half of the century. XV; other frescoes of the '300 and' 400 are in the apse, among them an Annunciation a Crucifixion, various Saints and Deacons. S. Orsola and stories from his life, S. Nicola di Bari. In the Chapel of the Annunciation there is the Table of the Annunciation, painted perhaps by Angiolillo Arcuccio in the century. XV. The trinitarian conception of the scene is ecstatic: the Father sends the Holy Spirit so that the Son may take flesh in Mary's womb. In the counter-façade we admire the work of a great master of the century. XV that gave color to the last events of the human story in the Christian perspective: the resurrection of the dead, the universal judgment, hell and paradise. The scene was realized so that it would be the last memory for the faithful who left the church, as a spur for decisive choices of eternal relevance

A wonderful church, with beautiful frescoes that cannot be forgotten. Go to Sant'Agata and visit it.