The Church of San Vittore

The first church dedicated to San Vittore, martyr and patron saint of Otricoli, dates back to the 6th century. It was built by Bishop San Fulgenzio in the year in which, 540, the body of the martyr buried in a cave near the Tiber River, not far from the Roman city of Ocriculum, was rediscovered. With the passing of the centuries of the early Christian church, - built next to the place of the saint's original burial - few traces remained due to the continuous flooding of the river that almost entirely destroyed the building. The Benedictine abbey of San Vittore was built in that area at the end of the 12th century. Abandoned by the monks two centuries later due to the landslide of the territory on which the buildings were set, the abbey complex gradually fell into disrepair. The remains of the saints who were kept there, including those of the martyrs Victor and Fulgentius, were removed from the church, which was also buried in the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria Assunta. At the beginning of the eighteenth century (the church) was now completely dilapidated so it was decided to build a new adjacent one, consecrated in 1714. This has inserted fragments of materials from the Roman era in the walls both external and internal and presents a decoration in the nave. tempera made between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.