{"id":909,"date":"2025-05-25T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/church-of-mary-most-holy-of-the-rosary\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T00:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:04:19","slug":"church-of-mary-most-holy-of-the-rosary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/church-of-mary-most-holy-of-the-rosary\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Of Mary Most Holy Of The Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\ud83c\udfa7 STAGE 5 &#8211; CHURCH OF MARIA SANTISSIMA DEL ROSARIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are in front of the <strong>Church of Maria Santissima del Rosario<\/strong>, one of Bisacquino&#8217;s spiritual and architectural jewels. <strong>Founded in 1478<\/strong>, it stands high above the town, in the district that, between 1400 and 1492, housed the town&#8217;s Jewish community. This historical fact adds symbolic depth to the place, a bridge between cultures and faiths. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The layout has a single nave, with a <strong>semicircular apse<\/strong> and a dramatic late 16th-century facade. Two mighty stone pillars mark its vertical lines, accentuated by the entrance portal and large central window. Above, towers a stone spire surmounted by a metal cross and weathervane, elements that dominate the urban skyline along historic Via XXIV Maggio.  <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next to it, the <strong>quadrangular bell tower<\/strong>, taller than the body of the church, is composed of two superimposed orders and lends further vertical momentum to the whole. The sober and elegant interior is developed under a deep barrel vault, plastered white and decorated with gilded moldings that reflect natural light from small windows inserted between lunettes. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 1879 and 1924, Canon Gaspare Raja completely transformed the interior, relying on the skill of <strong>Alberto Guarino for the stucco work and Vincenzo Lopes for the decorations<\/strong>: six side altars, the new high altar and the balustrade were thus made, enriching the church with marble and ornaments.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1957, <strong>three hypogeal rooms, perhaps ancient crypts or sacred storehouses<\/strong>, were discovered under the floor. Another small mystery in the long history of faith and art of this place, still dear to the Bisacquinese. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfa7 STAGE 5 &#8211; CHURCH OF MARIA SANTISSIMA DEL ROSARIO We are in front of the Church of Maria Santissima del Rosario, one of Bisacquino&#8217;s spiritual and architectural jewels. Founded in 1478, it stands high above the town, in the district that, between 1400 and 1492, housed the town&#8217;s Jewish community. This historical fact adds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-909","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-17 04:01:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/909\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bisacquino.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}