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THE CHURCHES |
  
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| Another heritage of considerable artistic and architectural value is to be found in the many churches both inside and around the town, where the devotion and religious spirit of the people of Martina are expressed in the precise and decorative art of building.
Here we find majestic façades with recessed and projecting features that play with space and superb aisles with finely decorated stone altars, showing all the skill of the virtuoso. In the churches we can see fine paintings, among them those by Leonardo Antonio Olivieri, an artist who trained at the famous school of Solimena in Naples. Majestic celebrating the sacred, the grandeur of pious devotion, architectural and artistic beauty as thanksgivin to a religious creed that is often fatalistic, deeply felt by the people of Martina: these elements, in perfect symbiosis, were decisive for the creation of these magnificent churches.
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