 t
.Rocco
It
rises outside the town, to the west side. It is presumed it rose in the seventeenth century
by vow of people, when the terrible epidemic plague was
rampant in the Italian regions.
The
building is in one body, without any important architectonic
element. The bell
tower was added in 1927. The
XVIII century’ altar made of white marble of Carrara and
the tabernacle made of polychrome marbles come from S. Maria’s
church. The original altar was in masonry and plaster,
so too the two columns and the tympanum which frame the
niche. In the niche is secluded a wooden statue of
S. Rocco, work of a local artist in the XVII century and
restored by Can. D. Ottorino Papitto in 1950.
Translated by Mauro
Rotondi & Beverley Wheatley
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