Two churches, two Byzantines jewels in the very heart of the village of San Lorenzo. In the middle of Piazza Regina Margherita, on either side of the ...

The Co-Cathedral of Bova, or Cattedrale di Santa Maria dell’Isodia, is situated in a position higher up that the rest of the historic centre next to...

In Brancaleone Superiore there once stood a church dedicated to Maria Santissima Annunziata, completely destroyed by the earthquake of 1908. Today, of...

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...

MADONNA DEL CARMINE [OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL] The Church of the Madonna del Carmine in Palizzi was built in 1573. To the name of the church are often...

IMMACOLATA [MARY IMMACULATE] Walking through the village of Bova, there are several buildings worth visiting, including the Chiesa dell’Immacolata [...

In Motta San Giovanni, in the Oleander district about four kilometres from the town centre, it is possible to visit the Sanctuary of Maria Santissima ...

Principal works of art The painting of the Madonna di Porto Salvo, which stands on the altar of the church of the in Porto Salvo, depicts the Madonna ...

Palizzi has retained the charm of the old, medieval village, comprising narrow streets, lanes and flights of steps connecting the village’s houses. ...

The tiny hamlet of Pietrapennata stands in the Alìca Valley, where the evocative remnants of what was once a church, maybe a monastery, still stand, ...

The Church of Saints Peter and Paul, of probable Byzantine origin, has a single nave, a more recent neoclassical façade and a square-based, two-tiere...

SAN GIOVANNI BATTISTA [SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST] The church, of Byzantine origin, overlooks the town’s main square. It houses two images of the patron...

The Church of St. Leo was built at the end of the eighteenth century on ruins of a previous building. Inside there is a chapel of relics. Some of them...

The little church of San Nicola, recently restored despite the fact that the town itself is uninhabited, is an unassuming, sacred place that retains i...

S. Rocco [St. Roch] is a saint venerated a lot in Bova. The small church dedicated to him stands close to an old monastery of the Frati Minori di Sant...

This church was built in the sixteenth century. At that time the altar was in plain masonry, the tabernacle was small, the candlesticks in silver-coat...

According to a number of documents, the church of the patron saint of Cardeto, San Sebastiano, is seventeenth-century and, unusually, built outside th...

Walking through the hamlet’s little, narrow streets, which lead to the main square, we come across the church of San Teodoro. Principal works of art...

Originally dedicated to the Holy Ghost, the church of St Catherine was rebuilt during the second half of the twentieth century and consecrated in 1969...

The Church of Santa Maria de’ Tridetti is situated a few kilometres from Staiti, in a green valley against a protective backdrop of mountains. Today...

The present th ree-aisled Baroque church dedicated to Santa Maria della Vittoria [Our Lady of Victory] was developed from an older two-aisled late-Ren...

In Cardeto, the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo [Saints Peter and Paul], houses a valuable eighteenth-century painting of saints Sants Cosmas and Damia...

This church known previously as La Madonna dell’Assunta [Our Lady of the Assumption] once stood in the old mediaeval hamlet of Amendolea. In 1869 it...

The Church of the Spirito Santo [Holy Ghost] was built between 1930 and 1934 by the Anonima Costruzione edilizia building company directed by engineer...

On the slopes of the Punta d’Argento [Silver Point] hill, at about one hundred metres above the San Pietro river, near a disused oil mill, half-hid...

Outside the walls that skirt the Ruffo di Calabria Castle there are three little churches of considerable architectural interest. Of the twelfth-centu...

Already along the pathway, as we approach the base of the Castle, we come across the ruins of a number of little churches. The first one to be seen (p...

The thirteenth-fourteenth-century Proto-Papal Church of the Assumption or, as it is known by tradition, Santissima Annunziata [Most Holy Annunciation...

There is evidence that the Calabrian Greek rite was practiced in Cardeto and the valley of the Sant’Agata River until 1700. The Sanctuary of the Ass...

On the 31st of May 1965, the bishop of Bova, Monsignor Aurelio Sorrentino, elevated to the status of Sanctuary the church on the Capo San Giovanni Dâ€...

On the summit of the hamlet of Gallicianò stands the small church dedicated to Our Lady of Greece [Madonna della Grecia– Panagia tis Elladas] w...

The twelfth-century church of San Giovanni, now a ruin, has a single nave with a sole protruding apse and two doorways: one facing west, the other, as...