La costruzione della chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittorina sembra risalire al secolo IX in memoria di una vittoria sui barbari: da qui il nome “ad Victorias”.

La tradizione vuole che qui il Santo di Assisi ammansì con il segno della croce il lupo feroce che atterriva gli abitanti del contado di Gubbio intorno al 1222. Appena arrivato a Gubbio il frate di Assisi non aveva una fissa dimora, solo nel 1213 il beato Villano, vescovo della città, concederà ai frati di stabilire una sede nell’antica Santa Maria della Vittoria. La costruzione originaria della chiesetta si fa risalire al secolo IX, nel punto in cui gli eugubini avevano battuto i saraceni. Per questo era stata chiamata Vittorina. All’interno, le pareti dell’unica navata, vengono arricchite, nel Quattrocento, con decorazioni a fresco, mentre sono seicenteschi i quattordici quadretti con le storie della Madonna.

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Francesco, nel 1213, ottiene in affidamento dai benedettini di S. Pietro, la piccola chiesa di S. Maria della Vittoria, i francescani continueranno ad abitarla fino al 1240 d.C., anno in cui si trasferiscono nel nuovo convento. L’esterno della “Vittorina” non presenta decorazioni riferibili al tempo della costruzione, i muri sono in pietra locale, sorreggono la copertura a capanna e delimitano un ambiente quadrangolare di modeste dimensioni, dal quale emerge solo l’abside a pianta rettangolare. Quest’ultima, nel XV secolo, è ridotta dalla costruzione di un muro per l’alloggiamento di una crocifissione. All’interno, le pareti della navata vengono adornate con affreschi del’400, mentre i quattordici quadretti riproducenti le storie della Madonna risalgono al ‘600.

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The construction of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittorina seems to date back to the 11th century in memory of a victory on the barbarians: from there the name “ad Victorias”.
Francesco, in 1213, obtains in guarantee from the Benedictines of S. Pietro, the small church of S. Maria of the Victory; the Franciscans will continue to live there up to 1240 after Christ, year in which they transfer to the new convent. The outside of the “Vittorina” does not have decorations that can be linked to the times of the construction, the walls are in local rock, they are supporting the double slope roof and are limiting the quadrangular environment of modest dimensions, from which emerges only the apse with rectangular plan. This last one, in the 15th century, is reduced by the construction of a wall for the placing of a crucifixion. Inside, the walls of the nave are decorated with frescoes of the 5th century, while the fourteen paintings reproducing the stories of the Madonna are dating back to the 7th century.

The construction of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittorina seems to date back to the 11th century in memory of a victory on the barbarians: from there the name “ad Victorias”.
Francesco, in 1213, obtains in guarantee from the Benedictines of S. Pietro, the small church of S. Maria of the Victory; the Franciscans will continue to live there up to 1240 after Christ, year in which they transfer to the new convent. The outside of the “Vittorina” does not have decorations that can be linked to the times of the construction, the walls are in local rock, they are supporting the double slope roof and are limiting the quadrangular environment of modest dimensions, from which emerges only the apse with rectangular plan. This last one, in the 15th century, is reduced by the construction of a wall for the placing of a crucifixion. Inside, the walls of the nave are decorated with frescoes of the 5th century, while the fourteen paintings reproducing the stories of the Madonna are dating back to the 7th century.

The construction of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittorina seems to date back to the 11th century in memory of a victory on the barbarians: from there the name “ad Victorias”.
Francesco, in 1213, obtains in guarantee from the Benedictines of S. Pietro, the small church of S. Maria of the Victory; the Franciscans will continue to live there up to 1240 after Christ, year in which they transfer to the new convent. The outside of the “Vittorina” does not have decorations that can be linked to the times of the construction, the walls are in local rock, they are supporting the double slope roof and are limiting the quadrangular environment of modest dimensions, from which emerges only the apse with rectangular plan. This last one, in the 15th century, is reduced by the construction of a wall for the placing of a crucifixion. Inside, the walls of the nave are decorated with frescoes of the 5th century, while the fourteen paintings reproducing the stories of the Madonna are dating back to the 7th century.

The construction of the Church of Santa Maria della Vittorina seems to date back to the 11th century in memory of a victory on the barbarians: from there the name “ad Victorias”.
Francesco, in 1213, obtains in guarantee from the Benedictines of S. Pietro, the small church of S. Maria of the Victory; the Franciscans will continue to live there up to 1240 after Christ, year in which they transfer to the new convent. The outside of the “Vittorina” does not have decorations that can be linked to the times of the construction, the walls are in local rock, they are supporting the double slope roof and are limiting the quadrangular environment of modest dimensions, from which emerges only the apse with rectangular plan. This last one, in the 15th century, is reduced by the construction of a wall for the placing of a crucifixion. Inside, the walls of the nave are decorated with frescoes of the 5th century, while the fourteen paintings reproducing the stories of the Madonna are dating back to the 7th century.