St. Benedict Church

St. Benedict Church

St. Benedict Church

The present church, dedicated to Our Lady of the Bridge, dates back to 1850. The adjacent monastery of the Benedictine Cassinese Congregation is currently the orphanage Antoniano Feminine and was built in the seventeenth century on the area of the oldest monastery of St. Barbato, did erected in 1123 by the Norman princess Constance of Altavilla.