Visit Ischia

Description

Harmonious architectural lines in grace and simplicity, following the "local style", the small Church has retained its original features over time.
The historical info about the temple show the existence of a rural crape date back the early of the XIII century. The priest Don Aniello Monte expanded in 1540 the original chapel dedicated to the Vergin Mary.
The Church consists of one nave with false arches in stucco. At the entrance to the left, under the first arch, you can admire an ancient fresco depicting the baptism of Jesus, follows the niche with the eighteenth-century wooden statue of St. Cyrus and the founders of the chapel dedicated to St. Joseph.
To see: the polychrome marble altar carved dug into a frontlet reproducing the Annunciation, altarpiece painter Matacena 1970.