Church of Santa Barbara in Naro
The Church of Santa Barbara in Naro, also known as the Oratory of Santa Barbara, is an ancient place of worship now reduced to a state of ruin.
It was built in 1336, when the Confraternity of Santa Barbara was granted a piece of land in the garden of the Convent of San Francesco to build the oratory.
The facade, in exposed stone, with frames and panels in the openings, has a valuable portal in white mortar stone blocks where the pair of columns in relief and the finely inlaid architrave stand out.
The interior, with a single nave, modulated by pillars leaning against the side walls, is bare and devoid of decorations.
Among the works kept inside, we remember: a sixteenth-century statue in gilded wood, life-size, depicting Santa Barbara; a wooden statue of San Giovanni Battista, dating back to the end of the 1400s; a Madonna delle Grazie from 1479, a work by Giorgio da Milano, of the Gagini school.
