Risen in the XIII
century following the recovery
of an image of the Virgo, It was
found on the borders of an ancient
Jewish ghetto.
It has a façade preceded
by a portico. The longitudinal
plant is separated in three aisles.
Along the inside walls of the
central aisle It races a continuous
moulding composed of methope and
triglifi and the ceiling erased,
while the smaller aisles has quadrate
vault.
The Seminar
The Seminar was
erected around 1752 on project
of Adriano Preite from Copertino
and consecrate in 1760. Realized
by regular of carparo It is of
quadrangular plant with articulated
façade in three floors
characterized to plain earth by
the projection of the architrave
portal with a shield among volutes.
The windows have frames supple
and showy windowsill. At the end
of the works in progress the building
will be center of the Diocesan
Museum.
The Cathedral
Probably completed
before the '700, in accordance
with the rigorous plant of the
inferior order, the decorative
abundance of the superior order
is contrasted concluded by a pediment.
In this work we can see a new
tendency, then followed in the
whole rest of the region, that
is to realise paintings of big
dimensions as The profanation
of the Temple that It occupies
the whole front side of the church.
The church
of St. Domenico
It makes part
of the sixteenth-century complex
of the Dominicans, of which It
still preserves the monastery
set on the right side. It was
built on sketch by Valerio Mastroleo,
between 1696 and 1700, on a more
ancient church founded in 1517
and entitled to the SS. Announced.
From this church the altars and
the relative paintings were recovered
and used.
The inside is articulated in an
only aisle of octagonal form lengthened
with five chapels for side.
