Period: XVII° cent., changes between 1652-1674.
original use: religious building .
Today's use: religious building
Overlay: pitched.
Roof and floors:lunette.
Stairs: in front of the entrance
Masonry techniques:masonry of tuff and lava stones
Floors: marble.
Outdoor decorations: in trachytic rock
Indoor decorations: stucco; altars in marble.
Chucrh of Holy Spirit - via L. Mazzella
Near to the Confraternity, the church of Holy Spirit rises, founded by sailors from the suburb of Celso, replaced the hospital for the sick poor, founded in 1620 and decommissioned in 1652.
The new temple was opened to the public in 1674 and maintained with the proceeds of the class of volunteer sailors.
The facade is bare except for the doorway and a window in trachitic rock trilobata following on the front line of the vault cover.
A pyramidal bell tower rises from the bell against the right side of the facade. It is divided into several levels, the latter of which topped by a dome covered with glazed yellow and green bricks.
The basilica has a nave, built on a Latin cross with an altar and along the sides of eight children, all carved in marble.
Crossing the transept is underlined by a low dome to top surface carries a sloping roof resting on the outer walls.
At the door of the temple there is a capital of an ancient marble column that was picked up at sea by fishermen.
See:
The stucco covering the walls and frescoes on the ceiling of the dome fresco of the castle (XVI8 sec) in the sacristy.
Glossary:
Trilobato: divided into three parts
Extradoss: convex surface of a voult
