Church of Santa Lucia

Cultural religious site

The Church of Santa Lucia is located after the so-called Porta Piccola (in dialect Porta Piccènne), which constituted the ancient entrance into the ancient village. Dated in the SEVENTEENTH century, it is one of the most characteristic churches of the town and it presents itself to one classroom. It has two entrances, a central one with a small rose window, and another side with a round newsstand depicting a beautiful tempera of Saint Lucia. At this top side entrance stands a sail-shaped bell tower. The church was originally owned by the family De Leonardis, one of the most famous of the agrarian aristocracy. Inside, behind the altar is a small apsidal with some fragments of fresco dating back to the eighteenth century. Of the few fragments one can distinguish a Christ blessing at the center, a refined image of an unrecognizable saint on the right and on the left outlines a mutilated face difficult to identify. The niche on the left of the altar is placed a paper statue of the holy owner of the church. On the counterface of the entrance portal some tombstones report in Latin the fundamental stages of the remaking and restorations that the building underwent in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.