Church of San Rocco

Small in size, outside the inhabited walls, the church of San Rocco was built between the 16th and 17th centuries. Lying on the 'rapillo', a sandstone rock, it has a single altar at the foot of a niche in which the 19th-century statue of St. Roch is placed. During 1985, this small church was in the centre of the Italian news, as people cried out for a miracle. Thousands of pilgrims and believers flocked to see a strange play of light that allowed a glimpse of the face and body of Christ on the enamelled surface of the niche.