POI data

General information
Chiesa e convento di Santa Sofia
Church, ruined church, chapel, temple
Catholic
no
The church has one nave covered with a fine wooden ceiling decorated by rosettes and a sixteenth-century painting depicting the Nativity of the Roman school. Inside you can admire the interesting blades of the four altars of the Neapolitan school of the seventeenth century and the sixteenth-century funeral mausoleum of the Duchess Angela Castriota Skanderbeg, wife of Ferdinando Orsini, Duke of Gravina. The monument in white marble, of the Neapolitan school, rests on a base decorated with winged griffins. The architectural complex of St. Sophia also includes a monastery of Poor Clares built between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an admirable cloisters in Corinthian order.
Location
via S. Sofia
Gravina in Puglia
70024
Italy
Puglia
40.8197
16.4148
362.92
Contact
Diocese of Altamura - Gravina
ITALIAN BISHOPS 'CONFERENCE CEI - Puglia
Additional information
Poor
Closed to the public static
Poor
Medium
Local
Poor
Appian Way
Religious tourism
CLOISTER,Franciscan,Monastery,Renaissance