Basilica Paleocristiana della Santa Annunziata

La rilevanza storica del luogo certamente non è in discussione, ma viene estremamente smorzato dal fatto che la chiesa è letteralmente nascosta dietro bar e pizzerie. L'ingresso è "interrato", c'è una gradinata da fare prima di arrivare all'ingresso, quindi non è accessibile da carrozzine e passeggini.

Sono stato in questa basilica per il matrimonio di una cara amica: luogo accogliente, ascetico perché privo di fronzoli e adatto ad una cerimonia per pochi intimi. Il parroco, eccezionale, ha condotto magistralmente la cerimonia citando aneddoti appropriati durante la predica. Unico neo "Maps": mi ha condotto alla basilica ma non mi ha bloccato prima di entrare nella "ZTL", nonostante la selezione "automobile". GRAVISSIMO!!!. Soprattutto perché questo mi costerà circa 100 €! Gli sviluppatori dovrebbero colmare questo bug!!!

Luogo secondario rispetto la maestosità del parco archeologico, ma sicuramente meritevole di una visita.

La chiesa della SS Annunziata è un piccolo capolavoro situato nell'area archeologica di Paestum. Atmosfera unica e molto suggestiva. Da visitare.

La migliore scelta che potessimo fare nel giorno del nostro matrimonio. Una perla rara. 11/09/2020

Molto più interessante e bella dentro che fuori. Naturalmente costruita con molti materiali provenienti dal sito archeologico, quando non ci si faceva certo scrupolo a prelevare pietra dove possibile.

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The original Church of Our Lady of Annunciation dates back to the beginning of the fifth century A. D. when it was erected as an open basilica. Subsequently between the end of fifth and the beginning of sixth centuries it was transformed into a closed basilica. We have traces of information from 1500 onwards from those so called 'ad limina' reports - the reports concerning the state affairs of the Diocese of Capaccio written by the Bishops or by their provosts. These reports were intended to illustrate the conditions in which the bishop had found various churches. At the time the region was sunk in a state of desolation, corruption and terror which had begun with the barbarian invasions and was to continue through the centuries, including all the eighteenth century. In fact the banditry was widespread, poverty was much and the ecclesiastical income was very low. The Church at Paestum had been partially restructured at the beginning of the 1500s by the Bishop Podocastoro. Towards the end of the the following century, Andrea Bonito, one of his successors had the Church restructured at his own experiences to avoid its imminent collapse. A few decades later, Bishop Agostino Idoardi again restructured the Church. Upon his arrival in Capaccio in 1724, he related that he had found the Cathedral very much like a stable or a nest of brigands, despoiled of all its Church furnishings. Idoardi built the high altar which he dedicated to Our Lady of Annunciation, the Chapel with the altar of St. Michael the Archangel in the left side aisle and the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows at the left side aisle. Bishop Raimondi, successor of Odoardi, completed the work by enriching the Church with marbles and ornaments for the high altar. Moreover, in 1760 he had a 'palatiolum' built adjacent to the Cathedral. This is the elegant little structure next to the Church, which until the last century was the residence of the Bishops who wanted to have a period of rest. In the second half of the twentieth century, the Cathedral was restored to the form it had prior to the intervention of Bishop Odoardi. This restauration work freed the ancient columns that had been enclosed within the eighteenth century pilasters and brought down the Church flooring to its original level which was lower by almost two metres. For this reason today one must descend a few steps to enter into the Church.