Basilica di Santa Maria del Colle, Renaissance minor basilica in Pescocostanzo, Italy.

The Basilica di Santa Maria del Colle is a Renaissance church with a longitudinal plan of five naves and four bays, its stone interior holding five coffered ceilings made mainly by Carlo Sabatini of Anversa degli Abruzzi between 1670 and 1682 and completed in 1742. The main facade, with a portal dated 1558, faces a wide terrace, while the older Romanesque-Gothic portal was moved in 1580 to the northern side entrance at the top of a staircase. The 13th-century Madonna del Colle is among the carved, painted and gilded wooden statues.

The basilica was built following the 1456 earthquake and expanded to its five-nave structure with a Renaissance facade during the 16th century. This reconstruction shows how the local community renewed its religious spaces after the natural disaster.

The church's name comes from the hill, the Colle, where the town grew after 1466. Its wooden statues, including the 13th-century Madonna del Colle, are carried in procession through Pescocostanzo. The wrought-iron gate by Sante di Rocco, finished in 1707 by his nephew Ilario, bears the motto ETENIM NON POTUERUNT MIHI, still legible on the workshop architrave at the foot of the stairs.

The church stands on the main street of Pescocostanzo, reached by a staircase that leads up to the northern side entrance with its late medieval portal. The main facade faces a wide terrace, and the bell tower rises beside it as a rectangular tower topped by a pyramidal spire. Visitors enter through the side door at the top of the ramp, where the 1580 portal was moved.

The wrought-iron gate was begun by Pescocostanzo smith Sante di Rocco in 1699 and finished in 1707 by his nephew Ilario; it shows animal, human and angel figures. Above the workshop door at the foot of the stairs reads the motto ETENIM NON POTUERUNT MIHI (yet they could not defeat me). The bronze eagles of the holy-water stoups are by Cosimo Fanzago.