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The first church built here dates back to the Lombard era and the ninth century; it was dedicated to Saint Nicholas and was part of a badiale complex. At the beginning of the twelfth century it was in a state of neglect, so it was rebuilt in Gothic style by the will of the Bishop of Bovino Peter I. From the mid-fifteenth century it began to be used for general civic assemblies. In 1515 it was sold by the Abbey of Montevergine, from which it depended at the time, the Hospital dell'Annunziata in Naples, assuming its current name.
The church has a beautiful and simple stone facade on which stands out a magic square, or the engraving palindrome of five words ("Sator, Arepo, Tenet, Opera, Rotas") arranged in such a way as to be read in four directions, from right to left and vice versa, from bottom to top and vice versa.
Inside, the church has three naves and has historical and stylistic stratigraphies, such as the Gothic arches of pink stone and decorated with coats of arms and engravings and the coffered ceiling of the central nave. Along its side aisles you can admire an ancient holy water font with fish carved inside, a wooden crucifix seventeenth century, a statue of San Leonardo, an icon of the Madonna di Montevergine, the statues of the Madonna with the Archangel Gabriel, of San Michele and Santa Filomena. Finally, on the high altar there is the eighteenth-century wooden statue of Our Lady of the Rosary.
