Sasso Mobile

A recently instituted parish (1995), Santa Maria di Ponte Ronca has two churches. The first, of antique origins (the earliest historical records mentioning it are from the 1500s), is part of a tiny, ancient village known as ‘I Portici’. Inside, there used to be an antique image of the Madonna purported to be miraculous, the work of an unknown painter in the late 18th century, which is now kept in the new church (designed by civil engineer Rodolfo Bettazzi, inaugurated in 1962 and then expanded, little by little). Remarkable on the façade of the antique “little church,” is a terracotta, high-relief sculpture representing the Virgin Mary as a child being presented at the temple, to whom the parish is dedicated.