Moden style church in the seaside village of Cerveteri
Along the Via Aurelia you can discover landscapes that take us from the Etruscan era to the urbanization operations of the seventies. The latter is the case of the hamlet of Marina di Cerveteri. It was bon as a consortium for holiday homes, from a subdivision built on the land cultivated with vineyards, of the Ruspoli family. All the homes, although different from each other, are designed in white and in a style with Moorish references. It was later transformed into a permanent residence. Max 500 characters including spaces
The church of San Francesco d'Assisi was built between 1975 and 1977 thanks to a donation from the Ruspoli, Ruzzenenti and Rallo families, owners of the lands of Cerveteri near the Tyrrhenian Sea.
It is therefore a recently built church, in a moden style where spirituality is recalled and amplified thanks to the wise use of stained glass windows that let in copious amounts of light.
The church has a semi-helical shape and the façade is entirely made up of opening windows, placed on the sides of a large iron door. Inside are the statues of Saint Francis of Assisi, to whom the church is dedicated, and of the Madonna, works of the sculptor Giuseppe Stuflesser. Oil on canvas images of the life of Saint Francis and the mysteries of the Holy Rosary of the Virgin are placed around the respective statues, works of the artist Eugenio Cannistrà. The altar is in dark marble and in the apse behind it stands a large wooden crucifix. There is also a Via Crucis on wooden boards located along the side walls of the church. The parish complex is completed by the rectory and the oratory (youth center), built in 1991 by the first parish priest Don Jozef Medový and dedicated to Saint Dominic Savio.
