Basilica Ave Gratia Plena, Minor basilica in Torre Annunziata, Italy.

The Ave Gratia Plena Basilica is a church with a single broad nave covered by a barrel vault, featuring side chapels decorated with ornate stucco ornaments. The interior displays carefully crafted decorative elements that express the religious purpose of the space.

On 19 September 1319, Charles of Anjou, regent of Naples, granted four notables a wooded lot at Calcarola for a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Annunciate and a hostel for travellers. In 1448 the feudal lord Nicola d'Alagno moved the ruined coastal chapel inland and founded the church of Ave Gratia Plena, calling the Celestines, who received church and monastery in perpetuity on 29 November 1498. Expelled in 1807, the complex became a secular parish; Pope John Paul II elevated it to minor basilica in 1979.

The name Ave Gratia Plena, "Hail, Full of Grace", comes from the Marian greeting, while the title Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) was given because the icon was found on 5 August, the feast of the Roman basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The wooden case holding the terracotta bust was kept, and the image was carried in penitential processions during droughts and famines.

The basilica is located on Piazza Giovanni XXIII in the Annunziata district and is easy to access on foot. Keep in mind that this is an active place of worship, so respectful behavior and modest dress are expected from visitors.

The wooden crate holding the terracotta bust was found without documents or marks, so the town named the image Santa Maria ad Nives because 5 August was the feast of the Roman snow miracle of 352. A 1872 restoration revealed a protective cloth had been laid over the clay effigy, probably during the 1743 works.