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Church of S. Maria di Costantinopoli (XVI century)
The church is located in the center of the ancient village, along the Chiancata, a road that runs through it in a ring, and is located in front of the Monastery of Santa Chiara.
The architecture of the Church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli is in line with that of the other rural churches in the area.
Inside the monument on the side wall, above the benches, there is a canvas depicting Santa Maria di Costantinopoli and which would have given the church its name. The canvas itself is very old and was probably the only painting present in the church since its origins. It is clearly of Byzantine influence of the type of the Glykopilousa or Madonna of Tenderness with the Mother lightly touching the face of the Child.
Interesting in the interior furnishings is the stone basin of holy water, ancient and probably dating back to the time of the construction of the church and recalls the style of painted stone practiced for a long time by Stefano da Putignano. The upper medallion with the coat of arms of the monstrance of the Archconfraternity of SS. Sacramento seems to be a subsequent addition and therefore subsequent to 1612 when the Archconfraternity definitively took possession of the small church of the oratory.
The Church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli is open only on the day in which the Madonna of Constantinople is celebrated, on the first Tuesday of March.
The small church of S. Maria di Costantinopoli, oratory of the Confraternity of SS. Sacramento, on the outside has a roof covered with chianche and a small bell tower. The only internal room houses a wooden choir. Inside there are some valuable paintings to be admired.
This church is already mentioned in a testament dated 11/27/1858 by the judge Pietro Romanello to the notary Giovanni Carusio and was at the disposal of the Archconfraternity of SS. Sacramento starting in 1612
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