The miraculous effigy of the “Madonna Bella” represents the spiritual center of the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Miracles, built in the mid-16th cent.
XVI around the “murellucchio” where it was painted.
Tradition has it that here Angiolina, a local peasant girl, is said to have witnessed an apparition of the same Madonna in May 1543 announcing the end of a famine.
The front part of the building, up to the line of the altars, is the result of a 19th-century reconstruction following a collapse in October 1837; square in plan, it appears almost bare, a sort of vestibule that prepares for and introduces the magnificence of the presbytery, one of the last known works by Giovanni Mauro della Rovere known as il Fiammenghino (1637-38), a veritable scenic backdrop surrounding the miraculous effigy of the Mother of God in a riot of color.
