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The Cathedral

The Cathedral

21 March 2017 878

Built in the 13th century in Apulian Romanesque Style on the top of the highest cliff of the Civita, La Cattedrale replaced the old monastery of Saint Eustachio. On the outside a 16 beams rose window with stained glasses and the 52-meters-high bell tower. A byzantine fresco of the Madonna della Bruna,a final judgement and

Chiesa di S. Giovanni Battista

Chiesa di S. Giovanni Battista

21 March 2017 790

It’s anothe Romanesque church, built in 1233. It is made out of three aisles and the big ribbed vault has been rebuilt in 1793.Nice Romanesque capitals and a massive apse are to be noticed.

Chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi

Chiesa di San Francesco d’Assisi

21 March 2017 955

Almost completely rebuilt in 1670 in Baroque style, it contains the old cripta of St.Peter and Paul, where a fresco representing the visit of Urbano II in 1093 is visible. To be remarked is also polyptic by the Venetian school of painters.

Chiesa di Santa Chiara

Chiesa di Santa Chiara

21 March 2017 922

Built at the end of the 17th century along with the adjacent convent that was used at first as a hospital and nowadays as the national archeological museum “Domenico Ridola”.

Chiesa del Purgatorio

Chiesa del Purgatorio

21 March 2017 830

Built in 1747 in late baroque style, its facade shows representations of the death and redemption of the soul.The church has a greek cross plant and an octagonal dome. The wooden portal is divided in 36 tiles with skulls representing the different levels of earthly power.

Chiesa di Santa Lucia al Piano

Chiesa di Santa Lucia al Piano

21 March 2017 861

This is a single nave church finished in 1797 when the benedictine nuns from the Church Santa Lucia alla Civita moved in the neighbouring Convent next to King Ferdinand of Borbone’s fountain.

Chiesa di San Domenico

Chiesa di San Domenico

21 March 2017 757

Built in 1230 in Apulian Romanesque style. A wonderful rose window shows a representation of Michael the Archangel and at its center a dog with a torch in his mouth (symbol of the Dominican monastic order).

Santuario della Madonna di Picciano

Santuario della Madonna di Picciano

21 March 2017 834

An old sanctuary, pilgrimage site,  on the top of a hill 15 km away from the town. It is told that  the Madonna appeared approximately in that area to some shepherds on the top of an oak tree. Since the 13th century it belonged to the benedictine order and then to the Knights of the

Santuario della Madonna della Palomba

Santuario della Madonna della Palomba

21 March 2017 759

The Sanctuary of the Madonna della Palomba, on the cliff edge of the Murgia, is near a cave where an old representation of a Madonna with Child was discovered. Rebuilt in 1580, it has kept the original structure of the façade with its rose window and ribbed bell tower. A nice 12th century fresco is

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