Chiesa della Madonna del Buon Consiglio

This small Baroque church presents a quietly intriguing architectural puzzle. Its rectangular plan holds a central nave with a wooden trussed ceiling and a lower side aisle to the left, its barrel vault raised on three squat columns. The frontage, however, tells a story of later addition: the pronaos and campanile were built around 1700, some time after the original structure. The present entrance stairs lead not directly into the church but into what was once this open portico, now enclosed. Within this space, a pointed arch marks the original, much smaller nave, the kernel of the entire complex, while the main entrance portal, a stone round arch, opens onto the current nave. The wooden door itself is modern, its panels carved with scenes of Christ. The same stone arch motif is echoed on the west wall of the nave, a subtle repetition that ties the later additions to the earlier form.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.