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Saint Anthony [ XV secolo ]
Story of the church
Saint Anthony’s church, along with the Franciscan monastery, was built by Prince Luca Sanseverino from Bisignano after 1459 and was completely rebuilt in 1740- 1741. It has a dome coated with yellow and blue majolica tiles . Inside there is a good example of the seventeenth century Calabrian decoration with stuccoes and marble banisters . Since 1861 the monastery has been the place of the gymnasium boarding school ..The church, with the name of Saint Luca in Saint Anthony, became parish in 1949. The interior , with a Latin cross plan , keeps paintings of Leonard Anthony Olivieri, portraying the Virgin and Saint Anthony’s ecstasy. On the vault stands out a fresco by Severino Ferrari, dated 1740. It represents the image of Saint Francis receiving the stigmata . In the old sacristy the Mausoleum of Barnaba Abenante of 1522 is kept.