Chiesa di San Leonardo

The origins of the church of San Leonardo date back to 1472, and it seems that the original structure had three naves. It was expanded in 1541, and in 1553 it became an independent parish.

The current church, in neoclassical style, was built next to the already existing church between 1848 and 1852, and by the end of the century, a monumental pronaos was added to the façade. In place of the ancient Romanesque church, demolished in 1967, the large rectory still visible today was built.

The neoclassical forms of the exterior of the building are marked by the presence of the pronaos, consisting of four imposing columns with composite capitals, supporting a robust molded entablature and a triangular pediment, topped by three statues. The atrium, accessible from the high monumental staircase, is characterized by a tripartite façade supported by four Corinthian pilasters, corresponding to the columns of the pronaos.

The entrance portal is topped by a triangular pediment on voluted corbels; on either side, two niches house the statues of St. Augustine and St. Vincent de Paoli. In the upper register, three framed panels with stucco decoration enclose two paintings depicting scenes from the Old and New Testament, with an inscription between them dedicating it to the Patron, “D.O.M. ET. S. LEONARDO.”

The interior consists of a single nave with a vaulted ceiling. The presbytery is square in shape and is concluded with a semicircular apse. Along the sides of the nave, there are four minor altars, two on each side: the altars of St. Roch and the Madonna on the western side, and the others of the Crucifix and St. Leonardo on the opposite side.

Near the entrance, there are two niches on both sides, of which the one on the eastern side originally housed the baptismal font.

Between 1866 and 1870, the painter Pittaco frescoed the interior of the building.