| Casalrotto has a central settlement with hundreds of caves placed in grand staircases beside which there is a medieval necropolis where, in the Masseria (farmhouse) with the same name, there have been found single or multiple burial graves. Among the most important churches-graves, only to make an example, there is Sant'Angelo, that was the spiritual centre of a close rocky abbey. It is about a very rare example of hypogean church caved into two levels, both with a trapezoidal plant and three naves, three apses and Greek and Latin ruins. Frescos (X-XIV century) partly are in oldest churches. Also important are the Cripta di Santa Margherita (IX-XIV century), with an irregular plant and very good Byzantine frescos, the San Nicola church, probably caved between the IX and X century with a Latin cross plant, three apses and notable frescos. |