ORARIO DI MALAFESTA

This oratory is dedicated to Sant’Antonio from Padua and has an octagonal structure with a nave and a presbytery where the altar of Sant’Antonio from Padua is located.

It was inaugurated on 8th September 1666 with a great ceremony, so that Pope Alessandro VII granted the plenary indulgence to those who would visit the church on that occasion; however we do not have any further information about this peculiar worship place.

The oratoryhas often been renovated, the last time was in the 20th century, when it hadits originary form changed and a sacristy was added next to the rectangular choir.

The ceilingis with visible beams and the vaultof the presbytery has four ribs, where you can see the faces of the Four Evangelists; the dove of the Holy Spirit is painted at the convergence of the ribs.

There is also a detached bell tower, which is wooden and external; its two bellslie in the apse of the church.