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Church · Frigento (AV)

Church of the Purgatorio in Frigento

  • Visit: about 20 min
  • 887 m
Church of the Purgatorio in Frigento
Photo: Noemizaz · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized

An 18th-century church in Frigento linked to the confraternity of the dead, with wooden statues of the Neapolitan school.

Frigento's Church of the Purgatorio was founded in the early 18th century on the site of a cemetery used after the plague of 1656, and was completed and enlarged in 1747 by the confraternity of the dead. The stone doorway dates from 1836, while the bell tower was rebuilt after the 1930 earthquake.Inside, we suggest looking at the 18th-century wooden statues of the Neapolitan school, attributed to Giuseppe Picano, the wooden choir and the paintings close to the school of Francesco De Mura. The crypt holds confraternity members and victims of the 1764 famine. This is also where the traditional procession of sheaf carts arrives, a festival well worth experiencing.

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