Grottammare the cropped bell tower
In the Church of Sant 'Agostino the apse of the church, oriented towards the sea, has a fortified appearance, as frequently happens in the ancient local churches which also constituted a garrison against enemy incursions: it is embattled and crossed externally by two buttresses. Next to the apse, there is a cropped bell tower which, according to tradition, was reduced in this way because the Augustinian monk Martin Luther was hosted in the convent during his journey to Rome before the great schism. The church has a longitudinal plan, with a single covered nave with a gable roof and wooden trusses. The church has three altars, but from some documents relating to pastoral visits, it is deduced that the church had ten altars in the seventeenth century.
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