Chiesa Di Sant'Antonio

Piazzetta with Church of Sant'Antonio dei Pignatari (Imperial coat of arms of Charles V, 16th century and Madonna with child by the artist G. Mazzola, 16th century), statue dedicated to Leonzio Pilato (Father of the Italian prehuman, who died in 1365, very learned in Greek literature and also mentioned by G. Boccaccio and F. Petrarca) and old houses to be revalued.

Small church always open to the public. If it is closed, ask the tire dealer near the church. To be noted is the presence in this small church of a marble sculpture depicting the Virgin and Child from the Gaginian school of the 16th century. The imperial coat of arms of Charles V is kept. The simple façade is embellished with a bas-relief placed above the entrance portal. Two side niches keep as many sculpted vases. The square bell tower flanks the building.

S. Antonio Historical News XV - 1783 (pre-existing entire well) On the site of today's building there was, around the fifteenth century, a church under the title of Santa Maria del Soccorso, visited in 1535 by the emperor Charles V and by mons. del Tufo in 1586, while the primitive church of Sant'Antonio stood in another site and in the seventeenth century it was under the patronage of Francesco Maria Ruffo, count of Sinopoli and prince of Scilla. Both were destroyed by the earthquake of 1783. Description The Church of Sant'Antonio, called dei Pignatari, stands in the homonymous village, outside the town of Seminara, on the site of an ancient church destroyed by the earthquake of 1783, which, probably dating back to the 15th century, was entitled, however, to the Madonna del Soccorso. It is a rural church rebuilt towards the end of the eighteenth century, repaired after the earthquake of 1908 and finally restored in 2000. The building has a rectangular plan, including a single hall with a short presbytery, whose back wall it is dominated by the high altar, which reuses eighteenth-century elements, while the roof is supported by exposed wooden trusses. The very simple façade houses a high-relief depicting God the Father blessing and Seminarese ceramic vases. Two tombstones, fixed to the sides of the door, commemorate the recent restoration and the entrance of Emperor Charles V in 1535, of which the imperial coat of arms in marble is preserved, affixed to the left wall of the hall. On the right side of the façade stands the bell tower.