Church of Saint Mary of the Announcement

It is the church of my country is very beautiful

The church, built in brick, has a Latin cross shape with a single nave in neoclassical style with Baroque influences, measuring 32.5 m in length; m. 29.25 to the transept, m. 10 in width in the body of the church, m. 16.2 in height. Inside, in the presbytery above the wooden choir made of walnut and carved by the master carver Marcantonio Polidori of San Lorenzo in Campo, stands the canvas of the Annunciation of the Virgin from the 16th century by an unknown artist. The basin of the apse was frescoed in 1950 on the initiative of the parish priest of the time, by the painter Ernesto Bergagnad of the school of Beato Angelico of Milan with the dominant image of Christ Pantocrator. The main altar in scagliola by Michele Ruscon of Lugano preserves the old frontal of polychrome marbles in the Cosmatesque style. Inside the main altar are the relics of San Placido, patron saint of the town. To the left of the main altar, in the arm of the transept, there is the altar of the Madonna of the ancient brotherhood of the Gonfalone, made in Baroque style scagliola based on a design by Arcangelo Vici father of Andrea Vici, while in the opposite part there is the altar of the Sacrament, also in scagliola and in Baroque style by Giuseppe Scala from Milan. The altarpiece represents the Last Supper and is an early 17th century work by Giambattista di Rocca Contrada (today Arcevia). Along the nave there are four altars placed inside niches, made within the thickness of the wall. The first altar on entering on the left is dedicated to San Carlo Borromeo; in front of the current altar of the baptistery formerly dedicated to the Nativity. On the left the next altar is dedicated to the Sacred Heart: on the right the altar dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary was originally dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and probably the Immaculate Madonna - Angels and Saints by Antonuzzo da Jesi was kept there now in the museum diocesan of Jesi. Adjacent to the church in 1792 the rectory was built based on a design by Isidoro Capponi. The transept ends with two chapels with two altars in the center. The Tabernacle rests on the right altar (with respect to the entrance to the nave).