Guardiagrele

Guardiagrele is a metropolis and municipality inside the province of Chieti, a part of the Abruzzo vicinity of crucial Italy. The Maiella mountain at an elevation of round 576 meters. Its populace numbers about 10,000. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio nicknamed Guardiagrele 'the terrace of Abruzzo captivated by means of the splendor of the panoramic perspectives of the mountains and valleys of the Maiella. Guardiagrele is the seat of the Maiella National Park, and was a part of the " Most lovely burghs in Italy" membership.

The largest church in Guardiagrele is Santa Maria Maggiore of which has been written: The facade gives a brilliant 14th-century gothic portal, some of the maximum stylish in the Abruzzi Gothic style. The Coronation of the Virgin sculpture group in the portal The lunar is likewise staggering, attributed to the faculty of Nicola di Guardiagrele. Under the colonnaded portico, subsequent to the aspect door, is the first-rate fresco by way of Andrea De Litio portraying Saint Christopher. In the interior, completely rebuilt in the 18th century following an earthquake, crumbling stucco-paintings inside the Baroque fashion and a shrine of the same duration activate to the 15th-century sparkling representing the Madonna of the Milk.