Attractions and Places To See around Sellia Marina - Top 19

Church of the Mount of the Dead and of Mercy, Catanzaro Although the date on the facade of the Church of Monte shows the date of 1728, the history of this sacred building, dear to the people of Catanzaro, dates back to the seventeenth century. In the fifteenth century, some Calabrian notables founded the Monte della Misericordia, through which funds were raised to carry out works of charity in the suffrage of the dead. After the capital (the mountain) was collected, a chapel for the souls of purgatory was built. In 1739 the church was consecrated. The central dome of 1769 is decorated with a painting of Saint Philip Neri surrounded by four evangelists. Inside the church, among other things, four paintings by Catanzaro Stadera from 1753 and a Madonna with angels by Giovanni Del Prete from 1642 have been preserved. On the portal a papier-mâché crucifix of the 600. Text / Source: Comune Catanzaro https://www.comune.catanzaro.it/la-citta/

Statua Immacolata, Catanzaro / Column with the statue of the Immaculate Conception Colonna con la statua dell’Immacolata The pillar was built by the community and blessed on December 8, 1954, on the occasion of the centenary of the recognition of dogma, which took place in 1854. Also in 1954, the then bishop Mons. Armando Fares dedicated the city of Squillace to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Text / Source: Calabria.Live https://calabria.live/squillace-cz-al-via-il-restauro-della-colonna-con-la-statua-dellimmacolata/

Basilica-Santuario Maria SS Immacolata, Catanzaro For the people of Catanzaro, the Basilica of the Immaculate is the building most dear to memory, as it is inextricably linked with the cult of the Most Holy Virgin Immaculate, patron saint of the city. The original hall structure of the Franciscan Church from the thirteenth century has been rebuilt several times. The facade is neoclassical. Text / Source: Comune.Catanzaro https://www.comune.catanzaro.it/la-citta/

Chiesa di S. Maria D’Ognissanti Detta Di S. Rocchello, Catanzaro Chiesa di San Rocco or San Rocchello, Catanzaro S. Maria d'Ognissanti Church, known as S. Rocchello The church of S. Maria d'Ognissanti, as it has been handed down, was in the center of a "restricted" one whose parish, as De Nobili notes, was on the borders of S. Maria de Figulis and in front of the existing parishes in the Greek district of S. Nicola Favatà and S. Maria di Cataro lay. The monastery, which now houses the "Soveria Mannelli" barracks, was commissioned by the people of Catanzaro after the plague of 1562 and, according to a legend, that Saint Rocco should appear at the sea gate, to the troubled craftsman Pignero Cimino, to whom he gave a miraculous ointment that freed the city and its inhabitants from the epidemic. Text / Source: Comune.Catanzaro https://www.comune.catanzaro.it/la-citta/

Statua del Cavatore, Catanzaro "The Cavatore" is the symbol of Catanzaro, the capital of the Calabria region, the man who works with shortness of breath and without breathing space, constantly struggling to survive in a country torn apart by environmental disasters (mainly earthquakes) of a capricious and severe nature that has always put all Calabrians to the test. "Il Cavatore" (the man who digs the rock) was made in the second half of the twentieth century and is a bronze sculpture on a granite plinth positioned in a niche made of neoclassical brick that is part of the monumental complex of San Giovanni (old Norman Castle) is in Piazza Matteotti. The complex dominates the entire square with the chromatic contrast created between the bronze of the statue and the gray granite of the bas-relief surrounded by the water of the fountain. The author - sculptor of Il Cavatore is Giuseppe Rito, a self-taught artist who had a rather short life (1907-1963) but nevertheless left many testimonies of the passage on earth and created important sculptures such as the bronze group of the last two goddesses Justice and Freedom guarding the grand staircase of the Palace of Justice in Catanzaro. The technique used by Giuseppe Rito makes his works very powerful, with the technique of the striped clay he obtained an expressionistic effect in which the aggression against matter could be understood as the marks left in everyone's life by the passing existence. The themes he chooses are the emblem of social awareness, of how tough life is in conditions of constant struggle. The imposing bronze sculpture of Il Cavatore is just one of the works that surround Piazza Matteotti, in fact there is also a monument to the fallen of the First World War, always in bronze but by the Calabrian sculptor Michele Guerrisi, who was affected by the bombing of 1943 was badly damaged during World War II; the Palace of the Court of Appeal; and the Grande Albergo Moderno (first a luxury hotel, now home to a bank). Text / source: Eccellenze Meridionali https://eccellenzemeridionali.it/2021/01/26/cavatore-statua-simbolo-catanzaro/