{"id":310951,"date":"2024-08-09T22:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/what-to-see\/grotte-di-castro-church-of-san-marco-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T12:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:19:42","slug":"grotte-di-castro-church-of-san-marco","status":"publish","type":"what-to-see","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/what-to-see\/grotte-di-castro-church-of-san-marco\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of San Marco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of San Marco in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/village\/grotte-di-castro\/\"><strong>Grotte di Castro<\/strong><\/a> was built between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century based on a design by architect Enrico Buratti. The building has a single nave and houses several works of art of considerable value.<\/p>\n<p>Among the most significant paintings is the Madonna with Child and Saint Anne between Saint Lucy and Saint Blaise, donated to the church in 1729 by the weavers&#8217; guild. Also of particular interest is the 17th-century canvas depicting the Virgin in Glory between Saint Louis, Saint Joseph, Saint Vincent Ferrer and Saint Mary Magdalene de&#8217; Pazzi. In addition to these are The Death of St. Joseph, a work by Matteo Pacelli from the first quarter of the 18th century, and a painting of St. Anthony the Abbot dating back to the 16th century.<\/p>\n<p>The church also houses two 17th-century statues: one of St. Anthony of Padua and one of the Immaculate Madonna, evidence of the popular devotion that has accompanied the history of the local community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Church of San Marco in Grotte di Castro, a building dating back to the 19th and 20th centuries with 17th- and 18th-century paintings and important examples of sacred art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":237897,"template":"","village-conntection":[50744],"what-to-see-region-and-provinces":[76148,76153],"what-to-see-category":[30159],"class_list":["post-310951","what-to-see","type-what-to-see","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","village-conntection-grotte-di-castro-it","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-lazio-en","what-to-see-region-and-provinces-viterbo-en","what-to-see-category-place-of-cult"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/what-to-see"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see\/310951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=310951"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-region-and-provinces","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-region-and-provinces?post=310951"},{"taxonomy":"what-to-see-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/what-to-see-category?post=310951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}