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SAN MAROTO DI PIEVEBOVIGLIANA (MC)-LA CHIESA DI SAN MAROTO
The Middle Ages marks deep the territory of Pievebovigliana, which sees the passing of saints, popes and military leaders, but also becomes the scene of battles and conspiracies, as well as a source of literary inspiration . To this period belongs the church of San Giusto San Maroto, one of the most important Romanesque monuments in the Marche region, originally located inside the castle of the feudal lords of San Maroto. Its particular structure with a central plan has fueled several speculations about its origin. For its implementation, it is assumed the arrival of skilled workers from the East, especially from Syria. At his traditional reading as a church founded around the year one thousand, contrasts with the hypothesis of a hunting lodge, working also as an astronomical observatory, dating from the Carolingian period and wanted by the same Charlemagne. The foundation of the convent of San Francesco in Pontelatrave goes back, however, to the same saint, who in 1215, during one of his trips in the Marches, he stayed in a nearby wood . The construction of the convent binds an episode of the Fioretti: St. Francis would have turned wine into water from the well to quench the thirst of the workers engaged in the construction of the first building.
SAN MAROTO DI PIEVEBOVIGLIANA (MC)-LA CHIESA DI SAN MAROTO
The Middle Ages marks deep the territory of Pievebovigliana, which sees the passing of saints, popes and military leaders, but also becomes the scene of battles and conspiracies, as well as a source of literary inspiration . To this period belongs the church of San Giusto San Maroto, one of the most important Romanesque monuments in the Marche region, originally located inside the castle of the feudal lords of San Maroto. Its particular structure with a central plan has fueled several speculations about its origin. For its implementation, it is assumed the arrival of skilled workers from the East, especially from Syria. At his traditional reading as a church founded around the year one thousand, contrasts with the hypothesis of a hunting lodge, working also as an astronomical observatory, dating from the Carolingian period and wanted by the same Charlemagne. The foundation of the convent of San Francesco in Pontelatrave goes back, however, to the same saint, who in 1215, during one of his trips in the Marches, he stayed in a nearby wood . The construction of the convent binds an episode of the Fioretti: St. Francis would have turned wine into water from the well to quench the thirst of the workers engaged in the construction of the first building.