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Palace · Sicignano degli Alburni (SA)

Former Seminary and Stele of Sicignano degli Alburni

  • Visit: about 50 min
  • 576 m
Pictured: Sicignano degli Alburni · Cc · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized and cropped

Old 18th-century seminary and, in the small square in front, a 1520 stele with Christ on the cross and the town's coat of arms.

The story of Sicignano's former Seminary begins in 1673, when an archpriest left his house to become a convent for women. After various events, in the early decades of the 18th century Bishop Raimondi founded a seminary there for humanistic and theological studies, with the consent of the Pope and the king. The institute was suppressed in 1866.In the small square next to it we recommend pausing at the 1520 stele, crowned by Christ on the cross carved by Giovanni Antonio Rotundo. On the stone plinth we find the coat of arms of Sicignano with the Alburni Mountains and the rising sun, plant motifs in bas-relief and an inscription inviting the faithful to hasten to the triumphant Christ.

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