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Church of San Giorgio Martire
Dedicated to San Giorgio Martire, it was built on the model of the Mother Church of Cosenza, around 1480 by the Zumpanita Blessed Francesco Marino. The three-nave church is in Gothic-Romanesque style with some Baroque expressions, it has full-arch...
Statue of St. Nicholas of Bari
San Nicola, protector of Rovella, was one of the most illustrious saints who flourished in the eastern church. He is depicted in his earthly role as bishop of Myra, with the miter on his head and the crosier in one hand, while in the other he holds...
Villapiana
Walking through the alleys of the historic center of, you can admire the
A Seaside Village
There are some villages that smell of the sea, enchanting places where time seems to stand still, where the air smells of salt and the sea breeze caresses your skin. One of these is undoubtedly the Marina di Montegiordano, overlooking the Ionian...
Excavations of Metaponto
Palazzo Ritacca-Valentini is located in the square in front of the church of San Giorgio Martire and is currently the seat of the Municipality of Zumpano. The current building differs considerably from the original one having been the palace...
Beautiful Beaches
Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water. But as this conductor must descend to...
Church of San Nicola Rovella
The Church of S. Nicola di Bari, located in the hamlet of Rovella in the municipality of Zumpano (CS), is a building of considerable historical and artistic interest. Zumpano ”among the noblest Baglive of Cosenza, writes Fr. Giovanni Fiore from...
The Augustinian Convent
The Augustinian convent is located in the upper part of the village of Zumpano. It was founded, or perhaps rebuilt around 1510 by Father Francesco Marini, who was a humble birthplace in Zumpano on 8 July 1455 by Agostino and Tiberia. Dedicated to...
Statue of San Giorgio
The sculptural representation of St. George and the dragon stands out in the suggestive context of the homonymous square where the Historic Palaces and the Mother Church overlook. It rests on a pre-existing fountain built by local workers. The...
Fountain sculpture depicting the Mother Church
The last unfinished work in order of time is the sculpture of the fountain depicting the Mother Church. A small miniature masterpiece the church, reproduced and treated in detail, supported by a base that seems to represent a rock, or more likely a...
MAE - museum of art and ethnography
The evolution of the form of the museum as an institutional body passes from the nineteenth-century fin de siècle building to the neutral white cube of a modernist style up to, today, the solutions of the contemporary museum as a true work of...
MAE Open - Zumpano outdoor museum
Considerable example of an environment linked to the development and transformation of the environment, in a specific territory, is the project that sees the birth and establishment of the MAE Open - open-air museum - in the ancient village of...
Chapel of the Immaculate
The Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, located in the center of Zumpano, belongs to the Valentini family. It was built towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th by the will of Antonio and Vincenzo Valentini. The chapel has...
The Vivarini Triptych
Kept inside the church, the Vivarini Triptych, there appears of a very pure beauty: the colors have tones of old velvets, golds have a pallor that makes them expressive with notes deep and harmonious. The altarpiece (m.2.10 x 1.70) has three...
Sacred Art Museum and Vivarini Room
Museo di Arte Sacra. The treasure of San Giorgio Martire - Between ancient and modern. The Sacred Art Museum inaugurated in June 2008 is located in the rectory of the Church of San Giorgio Martire in Zumpano. It collects the testimonies that in the...
Madonna del Carmine Church
The interior of the Church has smooth stucco walls treated with faux marble, like the columns placed on the altar. The intrados of the presbytery vault, furrowed with plaster relief ribbing, at the four corners, and painted in light blue with star...
The Calanques
On the western border of the territory of Zumpano with that of Rovito, along the hillsides that from the Valle del Crati progress towards the Presilana belt, a wide and steep escarpment of the order of tens of meters is sumptuously inserted, with...
