- Madonna del Soccorso
The Church, realised at the beginnings of the XIV century, is dedicated to Pietro da Morrone, ermit on the Maiella, elected as Pope with the name of Celestino V and canonized in the 1313.
Restored and widened at the end of the XV century and rehandled in the XVII and XVIII centuries, it suffered a stylistic restauration at the beginning of the XX century.
The inside, in Gothic style, has a Latin cross plant with three aisles. Through the side aisles, the noble chapels are accessible, where works by Francesco De Mura, Giacomo del Po, Giuseppe Troccola (XVIII century) can be admired.
Beside the apse there are two chapels for side, In the second chapel on the right there are the frescoes of St. Martin's Stories by the same author of the "Chapel of the Lioness".
In the first chapel on the right, there is the statue of St. Sebastiano by Giovanni Merliano da Nola, the greatest exponent of the Renaissance sculpture in Naples.
In the first chapel on the left, a floor in majolica tiles, azulejos, of the Aragonese period can be admired.
The baluster and the main altar, in marble inlay, have been realised respectively by Cosimo Fonzago and by Bartolomeo and Pietro Ghetti in 1645.
The trusses coverage of the central aisle and the transept has a coffered ceiling drawn by Bonaventura Presti. It contains works by Mattia Preti, the Calabrian knight, with the episodes of the life of St. Celestino V and St. Caterina in Alexandria, considered the most expressivenof the Italian painting of the XVII century.
Under the 14th century bell tower, it opens the Portal of the side entry.