The Church of St. Nicholas of Bari was built next to the houses of the old town and the walls surrounding the town at the behest of Bishop Arnolfo, under the pontificate of Alexander IV, in 1732 on the remains of a much older one dating back to 1230. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas of Bari, the bishop of Myra, city of Lycia, in Asia Minor, famous all over the world for his miracles. Flanked by a high bell tower surmounted by a cusp dome, the church is in neoclassical style. with a Latin cross plan with Corinthian type pillars and capitals. Inside, in the central altarpiece, appears the patron saint with the Virgin seated on the roof of the Holy House of Loreto, then the images of St. Lucia and St. Dominic, the Last Supper, and the transit of St. Joseph by unknown authors of the nineteenth century and a copy of a painting by Maratta and one by Rubens, which represents the Madonna and Child. Interesting are also a wooden crucifix of the ‘500 of unknown authors, an ancient organ of 1723, recently restored.
