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The Church of San Rocco, built in the sixteenth century, was located in the place where today stands the imposing Palazzo Cassitto. The Cassitto family in fact wanted to build their own home in the place where the church was located, asking the Grand Prior to demolish the religious building with the commitment to rebuild it at their own expense in another place. So in 1794 the original church dedicated to San Rocco was demolished and rebuilt in the present place.
The eighteenth-century church underwent successive changes: at the end of the 19th century the facade was rebuilt in an eclectic style with vague neo-Gothic and Byzantine reminiscences. On the facade you can see the small rose window and the beautiful stone portal. In 1934 the bell tower was added with the crowning temple with a conical cusp supported by six columns in white stone. Inside, in addition to the statue of San Rocco, you can admire a statue of San Martino from the church of the same name, a polychrome wooden organ of the eighteenth century, a canvas of 700 depicting San Francesco Fasani (who lived in Alberona from 1709 to 1712) and the precious simulacra of Santa Brigida and San Luigi in paper mache Leccese.
