CARMINE MONASTERY ---

In Città Alta, in the heart of the historic centre, stands the Carmine Monastery. An architectural gem with ancient history but with entirely new vitality. Designed in the first half of the XIV century by the Carmelite fathers, it was built between the end of the XV and the beginning of the XVI century, and in the XVII century the stables, chapter house and a new library were added. The heart of this majestic structure is the rectangular cloister, with a portico of round arches, supported by columns with composite capitals topped by pulvins and set on a low wall. On the first floor there are architraved loggias. It is from the XVIII century that the monastery enters a period of decay and abandonment and the rooms and cloister are equipped to become apartments to be rented