Chiesa di Sant'Angelo o di San Michele Arcangelo e Campanile

It was built in 1541 on an ancient shrine dedicated to the Archangel located inside a cave. Of the ancient pre-17th century ecclesiastical structure, only the bell tower built in the 10th century and enlarged in the 11th-12th century remains. The church was the seat of the parish of San Michele, suppressed in 2004.

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Near Via Assise, on the slopes of the hill overlooking the "Fratta", is the Church of San Michele Arcangelo, one of the oldest in the district, as already mentioned in a document of 1178 preserved in the Archives of the Montevergine Abbey . Rebuilt in 1541, after the demolitions carried out following the earthquake that had struck the town in 1512, the factory was abandoned after the new collapses caused by the earthquake of 1732 and restored only a few decades later. For the elevation of read more

Near Via Assise, on the slopes of the hill overlooking the "Fratta", is the Church of San Michele Arcangelo, one of the oldest in the district, as already mentioned in a document of 1178 preserved in the Archives of the Montevergine Abbey . Rebuilt in 1541, after the demolitions carried out following the earthquake that had struck the town in 1512, the factory was abandoned after the new collapses caused by the earthquake of 1732 and restored only a few decades later. For the elevation of the annexed bell tower, which today is characterized by the presence of a mullioned window at the height of the belfry, bare stone materials from the Roman era were also reused, walled into the base, including travertine thresholds, slabs of marble and also some sculptural fragments. The facade is simple gabled with four lateral architectural pilasters in stucco, a stone portal artistically sculpted in 1541, a niche in which the remains of an eighteenth-century fresco emerge and a bull's-eye window with a central stucco shell. The interior of the church has a single nave and ends with a deep presbytery area enclosed by a semicircular apse, while along the longitudinal walls there are a series of niches in which are placed baptismal fonts, wooden confessionals and marble altars, stuccos in relief with Baroque-style motifs create remarkable decorative effects inside: the eighteenth-century wooden statue depicting St. Michael killing the devil is precious. Also interesting are the recently restored wooden choir and an ancient organ, as well as some wall and canvas paintings with sacred subjects. read less