Bishop Giustiniani and the Madonna della Grazia church with an eagle on its facade in Gravina

Monsignor Vincenzo Giustiniani, a Genoese patrician turned diplomat, in his 64 years gave Apulia, the region where he served as bishop, several churches and public buildings. Among them is the unique church of Madonna della Grazia in Gravina. Have you ever seen so majestic an eagle on the façade of a church? And in a sparkling royal crown, no less? The reason is that the sculptor studded the crown with shards of coloured glass, and set a fairly large shard in the eye socket, so that the eagle's eye really does gleam and glint.
Vincenzo Giustiniani would be buried outside the walls, beneath the shelter of this bird, and a hundred years later his portrait would be hung in the church, with a Latin epigraph on a plaque beside it, in memory of this pious bishop, a man of holy habits.

P.S. If you, too, have taken against the absurd bell tower on the left, it is an unsightly legacy of the 19th century. It was tacked on to this distinctive building, if the inscription is to be believed, in 1841, and, if common sense is to be believed, most likely by some envious persons or simply by fools.