of Maria SS Giummare
renamed by the people of the High Madonna
To the east of Mazara rises a hill, alone time and rocky, where the Great Count Roger and his daughter Judith built a shrine dedicated to Santa Giummare in memory of Mary, according to tradition, the first victory by the Normans on Muslims in 1072, when it moved to the conquest of Mazara. Now the line of the original Norman building is being lost more and more, the little that there was a Basilian monastery annex is ruinous, and the same name has changed because the church today, and for some time, it is entitled to Madonna High . N on is this, the record date of a collapse, but the description in 1934, Philip Napoli, a brochure on folklore Mazara, Norman makes the monument perched on the hill on which proliferated, and lush, the Giummare ie palms. Despite the disappointment of Naples on the dilapidated building at the time the situation was still quite idyllic, and now, unfortunately, no feeling of "melancholy peace pervades the mind of the beholder, landscape around the monument or memorial from the busy highway from the Norman church which is stifled by dissonant constructions.
E 'also disappeared the stone "to the right of the climber with a cross engraved in the middle, no passing, he forgets to kiss, because on that stone, it is said, was made to stand the statue of the Madonna, a valuable sculpture Lombard Giacomo Castagnola, who is venerated at the shrine, "as the Naples testifies in his History of the City of Mazara.
Of Giummare now, every trace has disappeared; illegal buildings sprouted in their place chaotically, weeds and debris of various kinds, all declining in a confused way to access roads sberciate, mixed with the crown of barbed wire fencing , rusty wire and low walls rigidly Opus uncertain.
And to say that the Norman church, or what's left, is one of the few relics of a past that should be proud of Mazara.
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