Oratory of the Holy Crucifix of Fontelucente

Oratory of the Holy Crucifix of Fontelucente

The Oratory of Fontelucente is sacred place, built at the end of the 17th century and designed by the architect Alessandro Pettirossi, where nature and human work harmonize in a perfect balance. The peculiarity of the Oratory is that the spring water flows inside the Oratory in a chapel backed against the rock. The water flows into a reservoir and then pours into a niche formerly used for ablutions and the worship of miraculous water. Outside, the water funnels into the monumental fountain housed in a niche containing the basin carved from a single semicircular stone block.