Church of S. Paolo Apostolo

The Church of St. Paul the Apostle was known, until the eighteenth century, with the name of the Church of the “Madonna dei Sette Dolori”, for the presence of the venerated statue of the Addolorata, still carried in procession on the evening of Good Friday. Perhaps of fourteenth-century origin, since ancient times it has been the seat of the “Confraternity of the Sacre Stimmate of S. Francesco”.

The pious association was also entrusted with the management of the annexed Sanctuary of the Scala Santa. It shows a sober façade without any significant decorative elements. The interior, with a single nave with a semicircular apse, currently has a neoclassical appearance. At the sacristy there is a commemorative plaque of the lawyer Giampalma Palma, father of the historian Niccola and prior of the Confraternity, who obtained from Pope Clement XIV the privilege of erecting the Scala Santa building (papal bull of 21 January 1772) in the place where stood the urban garden belonging to the same Church of S. Paolo.