Automatically translated from Italian.
An open door in the side of a rocky wall leads to a hidden garden, from which you can enter the ancient rock-hewn church dedicated to Christ the Judge, a witness to the religious past of Laterza, beautifully frescoed.\n\nWith two naves, the interior has a rectangular plan, marked by a central pillar and two large arches, with a single apse frescoed with a depiction of a 14th-century Deesis, featuring Christ Pantocrator, the Virgin and Saint John the Baptist.\n\nThe main nave has a flat ceiling with a raised cross that runs the entire width of the vault and ends in a semicircular apse where traces of a Latin altar can be seen against the wall.
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