Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo

This church is a study in architectural palimpsest, where Romanesque bones wear a Baroque dress. The plan is a straightforward three-aisled basilica, twenty-eight metres long and seventeen wide, its spaces divided by sturdy Romanesque columns supporting longitudinal arches. Five bays are covered by vaults, while the walls and decoration have been overlaid with Baroque plasterwork and ornament.

The façade tells a more complex story. It is a tripartite, gabled front with three portals: the central one framed by modanated jambs and architrave, featuring a coat of arms at the centre of the lintel, a fluted and reeded entablature, and a broken pediment with two central volutes. The side portals echo this design with square floral motifs at their bases. Above them, windows sprout lateral volutes and sloping terminations. A square-plan campanile rises to one side. Inside, the apsidal wall is dominated by a large, curvilinear window, while the altars are executed in polychrome marble.

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