In the green countryside of Ponzano di Fermo, you can admire the incomplete temple of Madonna delle Cataste.
This peculiar building began construction in 1921 by a farmer after who claimed to have had an apparition of the Virgin Mary on a pile of wood that was located where the temple now stands. After the death of its creator, in the 1950s, the temple remained incomplete and fell into abandonment.

We issued a competition asking participants to Reuse the Temple as an Open-air Theatre that can accommodate people for theatre performances, concerts, and general events.