Luogo - Religious building
Basilica della Madonna dei Sette Dolori
Where
Largo Madonna dei Sette Dolori, 13, Pescara
The Basilica of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows is a Sanctuary site in Largo Madonna, Pescara Colli. It is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows and is a religious historical and artistic landmark for the city. Legend devotional is linked to the apparition of Our Lady of Seven Sorrows around the end of the sixteenth century, in the place where stands the present Sanctuary. Shortly after the appearance, it was erected a chapel with an altar on which was placed the miraculous image, a dome and a bell, then placed on today's bell tower. Later it was realized the new and bigger Sanctuary, as it incorporates the small original chapel, entrusted to the Capuchin.
