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The church of San Severo al Pendino

Altare di G. D'Auria, particolare.

The church was built in 1575 on the ancient church with hospital of Santa Maria a Selice, modified and restructured between 1599 and 1620, on a Gian Giacomo Conforto's plan.

Reopened in 1999, fifty years after the closure, it has been brought back to its original architecture, showing the entablatures and the Renaissance pillars hidden by the nineteenth-century plasters.

The inside presents the architectural characters typical of the XVI century with the eighteenth-century altars in polychrome marble. The sepulchral monument of Giovanni Alfonso Bisvallo, general of Charles V and of Phillip II, carved by Gerolamo Di Auria in 1617, is remarkable. It has been dismembered after the 1688 earthquake and recomposed in the eighteenth-century restauration in the altar of the right transept.