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| The Cathedral
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In 1659 the bishop
Luigi Pappacoda set the first
stone of the new religious building,
that rose on the area of that
one more ancient (1230) demolished
for his will. Joseph Zimbalo,
entrusted architect, completed
the construction in 1670, but
many years were needed before
the insides were completed.
The church, on a Latin cross plant
, has three aisles with side chapels,
an ample transept with chapels
to the extremity of the arms and
the apse flanked from other two
chapels.
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| Church
of S. Croce |
The construction
of the church crosses three well
separate phases: from 1549 to
1582, year of the consecration,
the realization of the inside
of the church happened on a project
of the architect Gabriele Ricciardi,
the second phase (1606) has seen
the realization of the three external
portals, of the most greater altar
and of that of S.Francesco of
Paul (1614). The third and last
phase coincides with the completion
of the superior order (1614).
Among the works, Jesus's Bambino
statue created by a teacher of
leccese papery and the painted
which represents S.Cataldo of
the XIX sec. by Alexander Calabrese,
have been settled in the left
part of the sacristy.
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| Church
of S. Irene |
Completed on April
of the 1639, the building has
an elegant and stylistically composed
referable façade derived
from schemes in use in the '500
Roman, there are Corinthian columns,
sculptures, coats of arms, drip
edges and decorative motives in
stone are made by two overlapped
orders. In the center among two
Corinthian columns, the plastic
nucleus of the portal is surmounted
by the statue of S. Irene (ancient
protectress of the city), by Mauro
Manieri (1717).
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| Church
of S. Chiara |
Monachal convent
up to 1866 the building had been
built since 1687 to 1692.
The prospectus of the church is
preceded by a brief stairway;
garlands, frames, decorations
and medallions and an ample trabeaziones
contribute to fill empty and to
act from links between the first
one and the second order of the
portal.
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