On the walls of the entrance to the chapel there are a seventeenth-century fresco of St. Donato Bishop and a seventeenth canvas of Resurrected Christ, both by unknown artist. Beside you can see the altar of the “Assumption, enshrouded in a canvas by Maldarelli (1838). The portrait of St. George at the bottom of the apse and the “Fall of the Angels’ painted in 1839 on the altar of St. Michael by the door which leads to the staircase of the Soccorpo (crypt) are also by Maldarelli. Of great artistic interest is the marble altar of the Holy Rosary (1764) with a canvas and 15 ovals pictures by the painter Francesco De Mauro of Martina Franca. Beside the entrance you flnd a Baptistery in polycrome marble by the Neapolitan sculptor Fedele Caggiano, the major altar was sculptured in 1861 by the same artist, and the commemorating monument to the founder by the Neapolitan Pasquale Ricco; both works are of the first half of the nineteenth-century. Beside the Mother Church, there is the seventeenth-century Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, erected on the site of an oratory in 1633. The building englobes in the back part a groundfloor room survived from the 1560’s hospital.

Inside the church are kept woo­den statues from different periods: the ones of the Mysteries by the painter and sculptor Antonio Semeraro of Locorotondo are dated to the nineteenth-century; the others, of unknown origin, are late eighteenth-century. On the right of the Mother Church, to Via Dura and then to Via Aprile, you are in the oldest part of the town. The alleys are very narrow and the houses are huddled together. Largo Bellavista gives you a surprisingly beautiful panoramic view of the Itria Valley. Crossing Via Garibaldi you come to Via Porta Nuova and then to Via Camerette and finelly to Via Giannone and down to the wide staircase to Via Cavour. On the right the Church of Our Lady of Greca, a building of undoubtful charm. This church can be dated to the end of 1400, even if the existence of a more ancient nucleus has been confirmed. It has a basilica set up with a nave and two aisles, with an ogival, ribbed cross vault in the center and flying semibarrel vaults on the sides. The basis of the bundle pilars and of the capitals are a combination of classi­cal and medieval motives. To contast the late-Gothic taste of the structure there is a great display of Renaissance sculptures (late 1500): the stone polyptch of the high altar, the altar-frontal representing the Deposition of Christ, the St. George group, the statue of the client of the sixteenth-century finding of the church, the statue of Our Lady of Grace and other fragments. Of great importance are the fresco fragments on the right wall, of a Madonna with Infant, belonging to a more ancient nucleus. Outside, the building is completed by two statues of the end of the fourteenth-century, the rosette remade in 1981, and the unique layered roof called “a cummerse’. Going back along Via Cavour you find the Church of St. Rocco, erected in 1804 on the site of another church dated to 1568, shaped as an apsidel and domed Greek cross. It was enlarged in 1872. 

 Inside is kept the large canvas of St. Rocco with the plague-stricken people, by Antonio Semeraro, 1854, as well as two smaller canvases of St. Irene and St. Francis of Paola and two eighteenth-century stone statues; St. Rocco wooden statue on the altar was executed in Naples in 1792. Going along Via Cavour to the crossroad with Via Bonifacio, where you still find the rows of some houses which were part of the eighteen-century “borgo” (village) outside the walls Further on you come to Corso XX Settembre and A. Moro square, where the new town hall (1952) stands. On the left of the square there is the seventeenth-century Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Going down on the right to Marconi square, leaning against the hospital there is the small Church of St. Mary of the Martyrs, erected in 1500. In the outskirts of the town there is the Church of Our Lady of the Chain (1897), formed by an upper part and underground part, containing the remains of a seventeenth-century cave-chapel where a late-sixteenth-century niche of a Madonna with Infant is kept, once belonging to the old Mother Church. There is also the Church of St. Mark, (1687), located at about 5 km from the town.  

Itria valley

 Fra Giuseppe Andrea Rodio square

 Via Dura

 Largo Bellavista