MADONNA DELLA COLONNELLA CHURCH

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Madonna della Colonella Church

The Church of Madonna della Colonella, the first of the sixteenth-century Marian churches of the territory of Rimini, stands along the Via Flaminia, a mile from the centre of Rimini.  Planned by Bernardino Guiritti from Ravenna, the church was built by the town authorities in 1510 in honour of a picture dating back to 1483 painted in a wayside shrine and depicting the Virgin and Child, which become miraculous in 1506, when it saved a pilgrim, unjustly condemned to death, who was pardoned after having seen the Madonna on the top of a small column. The image of the Madonna of the Column hangs over the High Altar. The appellation of the church, as it seems, isn’t derived from the miraculous event, but from the Roman milestone which looks like a small column and stands along the Via Flaminia at the entrance of the city of Rimini. The aisleless Church of Madonna della Colonella, which has been harshly damaged during World War II and restored without delay, is a Renaissance masterpiece which presents a harmonious and beautiful architectural design and an interior richly decorated with pilaster strips and mouldings ornamented with grotesque motifs, work of Bernardino Guiritti.  In the Madonna della Colonella Church is exposed a precious work of art dated 1610 by Jacopo Palma the younger, depicting the Deposition from the Cross.