Church of Saint Mary of the Assumption

Cultural religious site

The church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of the Assumption was erected next to the castle of Vico del Gargano, in Puglia. It has a simple façade closed by a triangular tympanum and refined by a trabeated portal in living stone. On the plant motif lintel, supported by two half-columns, an inscription dates back to the year 1675. The quadrangular bell tower and the ribbed dome rise above the town’s acropolis spindle. Inside the church we notice a long central nave and two aisles with five windows on each side that give light to the same. The church has eleven altars among which that of San Valentino, patron saint of Vico del Gargano already for sixty years and the altar of the SS. Crucifix once under the command of Troiano Spinelli marquis of Vico. In the central nave a large arch supported by pillars divides the choir from the rest of the church. On the right and left of the choir there are wooden seats carved in two orders and in the center there is the high altar with an oil painting by B.V. of the Assumption, S. Pietro, S. Lorenzo and S. Domenico. In the mid-eighteenth century the church was awarded the title of Collegiate.