POI data

General information
Chiesa rupestre di S. Antonio Abate
Church, ruined church, chapel, temple
Catholic
no
The church, whose original entrance was opened on the eastern side of a canal between Messapia e Muro street, is presented with two aisles and a semicircular apse and a flat roof, along the walls there are niches and archivolti.L 'primitive rite greek system can be traced back to the twelfth century. There are frescoes from different periods, the oldest dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, including the image of the Blessed Urban V Abatangelo consider Benedictine origin, to the eighteenth century can be traced back to the fresco of S. Antonio Abate on the altar seventeenth century.
Location
Via Vittorio Veneto
Massafra
Italy
Puglia
40.5890
17.1116
102.36
Contact
Municipality of Massafra
Pugliapromozione Regional Agency for Turism of Puglia
Additional information
Poor
Unscheduled visit
Average
High
National
Poor
Religious tourism,Cultural tourism
Byzantine,Frescoes,Gothic,Rupestral