Visitors who whish to
visit Locorotondo should start their itinerary
from the entrance to the old town, exactly at
the top of Corso XX Settembre, between Piazza Dante and Villa Comunale. This
public garden was
named after G. Garibaldi. It was built in 1860 on
a small hillside which from ancient times had
always remained outside the walls and had been
used as garbage dump. In front of it, the Chiesa
dellAddolorata (the church of Our
Lady of Sorrows), built in 1858 on the site of
the old castle, destroyed for this new building
in 1855. Inside there are some late-eighteenth-century
wooden statues (Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Gaetano
and Our Lady of the Cross) and two more dated to
1888, respectively of the Redeemer and St. Antony
Abbot by the local artist Antonio Semeraro. Even
the small stone statue kept in the sacristy, of
uncertain origin, portrays St. Antony. Outside,
on the façade, there are two stone statues
depecting the sybils Delphic and Eritrea, once
belonging to the old Chiesa Madre (Mother
Church). Going on to Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
(formely Castle square) and through the old
Napoli door you get into the old town.
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