Description
In its name, the small church of Santo Spes retains the memory of one of the first hermits who settled in the current territory between Norcia and Preci during the 5th century.
It is the oldest church in the hamlet of Castelvecchio documented in a Bishop’s stamp of 1350. It had two altars dedicated to the Saint and to the Madonna of the Rosary. Of the Romanesque structure the small apse and a single-mullioned window remain. A fragment of a marble architrave, depicting a griffin coming out of an acanthus bush, datable to the 1st century A.D., is built-in to the left wall.
Piazza Garibaldi 1
