Caterva Church in Pietraperzia
The Church of the Caterva in Pietraperzia, also known as the Church of the Cateva, is what remains of an ancient fourteenth-century church.
The fourteenth-century church was demolished in 1500 when the Marquis Don Matteo Barrese ordered the construction of a new church in that same place. It is believed that the current Church of Caterva became the crypt of the sixteenth-century church and that the two external towers, demolished in 1899 because they were unsafe, were the bell and clock towers.
Inside the Church of Cateva it is still possible today admire the golden stuccoes of the ancient church on the vault. Inside the church, also called the Crypt of the Holy Souls, there is a valuable Byzantine-style crucifix.
Traditionally the church is only open during the month of May.
