Chiesa Spirito Santo

The Parish Church of the Holy Spirit stands as a replacement for a previous chapel dedicated to San Rocco, probably built shortly before 1540 and demolished around 1578 to make way for the new building. During recent restoration work, the foundations of the earlier building were observed beneath the main altar.

For the construction of the new building, part of the square in front and the ancient granaries, present in the square and discovered during recent restoration and pavement refurbishment works, were incorporated into the church itself, becoming burial places.

The layout is of clear post-Tridentine design, with a basilican plan in the Latin cross with three naves, a transept with contracted arms, vaulted in the Lecce style with a bell tower attached to the choir. The stucco decorations present on the pillars and on all the interior walls of the church were removed following the last restoration and structural recovery intervention of the entire building. The last decorative intervention on the vaults of the choir with the tempera paintings of the four evangelists has survived: Saint John, Saint Luke, Saint Matthew and Saint Mark.

On the left side of the door is the sixteenth-century baptismal font made of Lecce stone.