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Hermitage of San Domenico

What to see in Villalago, L'Aquila, Abruzzo


comprises a cave dug into the limestone rock, in which according to the tradition, around the year 1000 dwelt the benedictine monk San Domenico. The church is accessed through a portico with four large paintings of 1938, the work of the painter villalaghese Alfredo Gentile, depicting scenes from the life of the saint and focused on the narration of some miracles. The entrance to the church is through a portal decorated with grotesques, dating back to the beginning of the XVII century.

Inside it is possible to note the great altar in the neogothic style of XIX-XX century around, a nineteenth-century wooden statue of San Domenico Abate prayerful and the base of the beautiful paliotto in marble stucco 1761, made by Giuseppe Mancini. In the church there are other works of the painter Alfredo Gentile: San Domenico Abate that saves a possessed woman (1969), Sant'Antonio da Padova with Child (1969), a Madonna and Child with Saint Francis who speaks to the Wolf (1969).

  • SR479, Villalago (L'Aquila)
  • Religious location

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Events

from
sunday
21
january, 2024
to monday 22 january 2024

The Bonfires

monday
1
april, 2024

Procession to the hermitage of San Domenico

from
saturday
13
july, 2024
to sunday 14 july 2024

Feast of Sant'Antonio and the Madonna delle Grazie

thursday
15
august, 2024

Ancient Villalaghese marriage

from
wednesday
21
august, 2024
to thursday 22 august 2024

Patronal feast of San Domenico

from
friday
13
september, 2024
to saturday 14 september 2024

Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

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