Religious Places

The Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo was founded between 382 and 386 (year of the consecration), at the behest of Bishop Ambrose, on the area of a pre-… Read the rest

The Benedictine Abbey of the Holy Trinity of Cava was in the Middle Ages one of the most powerful and lively religious and cultural centers of Souther… Read the rest

Depicted several times by the mastery of the brushes of the artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the small chapel is dedicated to the c… Read the rest

The church of S. Maria Assunta, harmoniously inserted inside the urban fabric of Lugnano, can be considered the most mature expression of the Romanesq… Read the rest

Franciscans enlarged the original church, dedicated it to St. Francis and turned one of the defence towers into a bell tower. In 1652, under the ponti… Read the rest

For hundreds of years the legend of a shipwreck occurred around the middle of ‘600: a sailing ship with Neapolitan crew was surprised by a viole… Read the rest

It was built in the fourteenth century on an area donated at that time to the order of Friars Minor. In the second half of the XVIII century, after th… Read the rest

The church of San Pietro in Mavino, in Sirmione, has very ancient origins, according to tradition it was built by local fishermen. The first documen… Read the rest

The Abbey de la Sauve Majeure history stretches back to 1079 when a Benedictine monk, who would later become Saint Gérard de Corbie, founded Notre Dam… Read the rest

Katarina kyrka (Church of Catherine) was originally constructed in 1656–1695. It has been rebuilt twice after being destroyed by fires, the second tim… Read the rest