The Basilica Sanctuary of the Madonna del Pettoruto is perched high on the gorge of the Rosa river, between the slopes of Montea and Mula. founded by the Basilian monks around 1200 The statue of the Madonna in stone, is considered by many scholars to be an example of popular art of the fifteenth century. Sterile women turn with devotion to the Madonna who holds her son in her arms with a world in her hand. The similarity with "pagan" rites and devotions to Hera, the goddess of fertility who is often depicted with a child in her arms and a pomegranate fruit in her hand, is curious. Curious but not too much if you think that in 1860 just upstream of the sanctuary in the locality of Artemisia a bronze votive ax was found dating back to the sixth century BC, now kept in the British museum with an engraving in the Achaean dialect, in the Doric alphabet. Hera Lacinia.

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