In the Apàmbelo locality, at about 70 metres above the Vena River, stand the ruins of the small San Niceto church (tenth century), measuring about 6 x 7.5 metres, which has an outwardly protruding, oval apse with a circular elevation, flanked by two apsidal niches set into the thick wall. The entrance, on the northern side, leads to the upper storey of the building where there is also a small window facing south.

In the northern wall, close to the nearby western one, there is a small aperture which was once used to collect water that flowed through an earthenware conduit in the wall, down onto the lower floor which acted as a cistern. A cleft in the western wall, positioned just below the holes where the beams supporting the floor must have rested, may be the overflow outlet. In several sections of the southern wall, one can still see large patches of plaster with traces of colour from the frescoes that once adorned it.

The thickness of the two longer walls, greater than that of the shorter ones, suggests a gable-ended vaulted roof. The proportions of the building seem to follow a 30-cm cadenced design. Recent archaeological finds (following digs carried out in 2007 and 2008) inform us of the presence, to the east and not far from the ruins of the church, of an east-west orientated medieval building with painted plaster and one dating from the Bronze Age, probably circular in shape with a diameter of 8-10 meters.

The Description of the church is by Sebastiano Maria Venoso and has been taken from “Portpàtima” edited by Alfonso Picone Chiodo, Edizioni Apodiafazzi 2015.