The Museum of the Sacred Vestments of Montemarano, a living testimony of an ancient civilization, is the first example in Southern Italy of the collection and inventory of Sacred Vestments; it enriches Campania with an important collection of precious Italian fabrics, mostly made in Southern Italy, between the 16th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Among the most significant fabrics are the parade of Bishop Celestino Labonia (1670 – 1720), the donations of Pope Benedict XIII on the occasion of the jubilee year 1725, and a 17th century Madonna’s dress of Sicilian manufacture. The museum is housed in the former Church of Purgatory, built at the beginning of 1700 from the extension of the pre-existing noble chapel of the Aliasi family.
On the front wall and on the side walls of the church, above the niches, you can admire frescoes of good workmanship concerning the devotions of the family itself, while, below, in the lunettes of the side walls are represented scenes of violence or tragic death, an expression of popular piety in 1700.
