Chiesa di San Giorgio all’Isola

The village is called San Giorgio in the Statutes montemonachesi “Insula Ranieri Ragnerii or” most likely indicates the name of the feudal lord who had dominion and possessions in the Villa. The name Island or “Insula”, indicating a portion of land completely surrounded by water, this indicates an emerging promontory, surrounded on three sides by rivers, that the two were coming down from Ropaga and Batticupa and Aso river that receives the waters. This church, throughout the Middle Ages, was owned and assigned farfense employed by the Priory of Santa Vittoria in Farfense Matenano. The provost of St. George, was appointed Abbot of the Monastery of Santa Vittoria and this until the establishment of the Diocese of Montalto Marche in the year 1586, by the will of Sixtus V. The original structure of the church, of monastic origin, had to go back to the eleventh century and was a single nave, in the axis oriented towards the west – east, with the extension of the semicircular apse to the east. With subsequent interventions were added a fifteenth-century tower leaning against the facade, a second aisle, communicating and parallel to the left side and the sacristy on the opposite side. Sandstone lintel of the door of the main entrance is engraved in the year 1535 with the name of the parish priest who promoted the restoration and expansion: At the time of the pastoral visit of Monsignor Tsunamis of 1573, the tower was still working as a bell ; was later added to the structure to sail for the planting of two bells. You enter the nave oldest through cryptoporticus, obtained at the base of the massive tower fifteenth. Leaning against the back wall is the structure of a polygonal canopy, decorated with votive frescoes of the mid-sixteenth century.