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S.ANTONIO DA PADOVA CHURCH
S.Antonio church is a lovely church closed to the Municipal
Park.In the past, it was consecrated to S.Stefano and was built
by the Franciscan Observant Friars in the XV century. Its façade
is valuable as it was renovated in a neoclassical style in 1835,
even if its ancient structure was medieval. The convent next to
it has an austere cloister in a strict franciscan style, where
you can see precious frescoes from the first half of the
eighteenth century.The inside of the church is divided in three
naves; on the right you can see some frescoes of the XV
cent.about the lives of S.Lorenzo and S.Caterina of Alessandria. |
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S.Antonio da Padova church - Piazza Sant’Antonio - Tel
080 4805869 |
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 7.30-12.30 -
16.30-20.30 |
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S.FRANCESCO D’ASSISI CHURCH
S.Francesco d’Assisi church is another important sacred site
that is settled in the famous Mario Pagano square.It was built
between the XVII and the XVIII century for the will of Friars
Minor. |
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S.Francesco d’Assisi church - Piazza
Mario Pagano - Tel 080 4832890 |
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7.30-12.30 -
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SAN GIOVANNI DEI GRECI CHURCH
This church is in the old town centre and it can be dated back
to the first centuries of the origins of Martina. It reminds the
architecture of greek churches, whose peculiar elements were : a
modest rectangular plan, a pignon roof and a bell gable. San
Giovanni dei Greci church is mainly the same at the interior,
but the outside has been revised plenty of times in a baroque
style, expecially its façade.The interior is very simple,besides
a wood choir on the right wall at half height. |
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he façade instead, was reconstructed in the
seventeenth century,after the construction of the upper floor
and there are some baroque elements on it, like a curvilinear
cyma with two big torches and the bell tower in the centre. In
the upper part of the façade there are three windows (one of
which is blind), framed by fancy cartouches.The main portal only
has an architrave jutting from the body of the building. At the
moment this church is the seat of the Assumption Confraternity,
that was established in the XVII century. |
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