The Abbey of Santa Maria della Vittoria (Italian: L’abbazia di Santa Maria della Vittoria) was a Cistercian monastery located in Scurcola Marsicana, Province of L'Aquila, Italy.
[1] The abbey was built by Charles I of Naples (Carlo d'Anjou) to celebrate the victory in the Battle of Tagliacozzo against the Hohenstaufen Duke of Swabia Conradin, to control the Kingdom of Sicily.
The construction started in 1274, and in 1277 the abbey hosted the first monks, recruited only from the French mother Abbey of Louroux in Vernantes (Anjou), places of origin of large part of the soldiers involved in the battle.
Over more than a century the abbey thrived, but the fortunes fell with the extinction of the line of Anjou from the rule of Sicily (and Naples) that distinctly occurred in 1442 with the ascension of Alfonso V of Aragon to the that kingship.
Fragments of the ruins were utilized in the construction of the present church and other buildings.