san Nicola di Bari

Beautiful church

Nice little church

That in such a small village there is such a particular church is truly an emotion! And it is round like a baptistery! The parish church was built in the second half of the 18th century on a previous chapel which was destroyed. Prince Lante, then Abbot General Manager of Farfa entrusted the project to Arch. Virginio Bracci who gave the new building the typical late Baroque imprint of a Roman environment, still appreciable inside. The church, with a single nave, has an elliptical plan with a large presbytery and 6 side chapels. Above the entrance door is the choir with the ancient organ then restored in 1939 by the Pacific Inzoli company and sons of Parma. In 1915 the structure, already in a precarious state of conservation, following an earthquake, suffered considerable damage and the inexorable degradation that ensued resulted in the closure of the church, to protect public safety (1928). The church, as it appears today, I would put: is the result of the architectural restoration works carried out from 1937 to 1939 on a project by the architect. Filippo Sneider of Rome, whose technical and artistic direction was entrusted to Comm. Angelo Salustri Galli flanked by his wife, Donna Linda dei Marchesi Theodoli. The authors of the new decorative and pictorial apparatuses were the artist Alberto Albani, with his son Luigi, to whom the paintings of the lacunars of the vaulted ceiling, the copings on the large windows and the marmorino of the walls are attributed; while the paintings of the central mirror of the vault and of the lunettes of the apse are the work of the artist Ettore Ballerini of which the figuration of the dome of the Virgin and Child and the patrons S. Nicola di Bari and S. Donato Vescovo, the one on the vault of the presbytery of the Eternal Father and the Holy Spirit and, in the lunettes of the apse, the Redeemer in glory among the Angels. Finally, the stuccos were made by the firm Giovanni Sabatini and sons; the marble floor from the Biggi firm, the Venetian grit and the mosaic coat of arms of the noble Salustri Galli family from the Fattinnanzi firm.