At the top of the street that shares its name, where just a couple of centuries ago open countryside stretched just beyond Vasto’s gates, stands the Palazzo di Sant’Anna. It takes its name from the church dedicated to the Virgin Mary’s mother, which occupies its ground floor. The church entrance is marked by a portico…
The noble chapel of Palazzo Genova Rulli, the Church of Santa Filomena, stands today in elegant neoclassical form, shaped by the reconstruction carried out by architect Nicola Maria Pietrocola in the early 19th century. Its façade features a large triangular pediment above the portal’s architrave, while inside, a single nave creates an intimate yet refined…
The Church of San Francesco da Paola, known locally as the Chiesa dell’Addolorata due to its famous wooden statue that inspires popular devotion, is situated on the central Piazza Rossetti. Its beautiful Neoclassical façade, designed in the mid-19th century by architect Silvestro Benedetti, features two orders of pilasters that resemble semi-columns supporting the pediment. A…
A circular tower overlooks Piazza Verdi, the city’s main traffic crossroads, easily identifiable by its fifteenth-century base, which contrasts with the second floor built in the twentieth century and covered in plaster. This is the Santo Spirito Tower, one of the five towers that originally formed part of the defensive bulwarks of the “degli inforzi”…