Chiesa Santa Maria delle Grazie

This small Norman church, built from medium-grained sandstone, retains the simplicity of its original single-nave plan. The southeast apse preserves a single lancet window, likely original, matching the splayed openings on the northern flank. The façade rises to a bell-gable and is crowned with a row of trilobed ogee arches, a decorative motif that speaks to the hybrid architectural language of the period. The round-headed doorway has been altered, its width reduced by later insertions; above it, a circular oculus with a carved border provides a focal point. To one side of the portal, a stone block bears a geometric pattern, clearly intended for inlaid tesserae that have long since vanished. This church does not shout its age. It waits, quietly, in stone and shadow, for the attentive eye, a modest but genuine survivor from an era when Norman builders were still learning the local ways of light and line.

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