| The Oratory of Mount Purgatory and the Church were erected in 1649 to house the homonymous confraternity. The architectural language is still strongly medieval, as demonstrated by one of the portals drowned newsstand.
Inside a beautiful baroque altar with a stone statue of the Virgin, and a large blade with original polychrome frame, with St. Michael the Archangel's Caramia (eighteenth century), the choir still maintains a nice pipe organ works of Lecce Francesco Giovanelli (1749). Oratory than we find a giant ceiling painting on wood, dated 1652, depicting an architectural perspective, with angels fluttering between balusters, oval side with scenes of souls in purgatory, and a large central panel with a deposition.
In the belfry is a large bell dated 1652 and signed by the master founder of De Napoli Gallipoli. |