Church of San Francesco di Paola in Paceco
The Church of San Francesco di Paola in Paceco is one of the oldest buildings of worship in the town.
It was built, together with the adjoining convent of San Francesco di Paola, at the beginning of the 17th century at the behest of Prince Placido Fardella and entrusted to the Franciscan Minimum Order. The complex was built at the top of an ideal quadrilateral which constituted the original inhabited area.
The simple façade has a stone entrance portal surmounted by a circular opening and a stringcourse which horizontally divides the façade into two parts. On the upper level there is a bell tower flanked by two volutes at the end.
The interior, with a single nave, houses the wooden statue of San Francesco di Paola dating back to the 19th century.
The adjacent convent, whose rooms are used as Carabinieri barracks, has evident seventeenth-century architectural traces in the walls and garden.
