St. Therese Church

Preceeding along M.Serafina street from the square, it takes you 5 minutes to arrive at St. Therese Church. The construction was started in 1666 in order to sustitude the aincient one “la Capella del Salvatore”. The church was designed by architect Dionisio Lazzari to whom was then entrusted its final realization. After that the church was consecrated by cardinal Vincenzo Maria Orsini and by mosignor Dioniso Petra, bisho of Capri. Near the church there is a convent in action, which dates back to the same period of the church. At the entrence of the church there is a double flight of stairs, which leads to the rectangular atrium, which preceeds the liturgic area consisted of the unique nave with two chapels on each side. The pavements of the nave as well as those of the lateral chapels are covered with square majolic tiles, which compose an airy weft with festoons, flowered patterns and volutes of different colours. Unfortunately, nowadays they are mostly destroyed and sostitiuted with arbitrary additions which, however, do not spoil the beauty of this small church. Then, passing to visit the convent above the cloister’s entrence you can see an inscription in Latin made in memory of Suor Serafina di Dio. In the centre of the cloister the marble parapet and the well’s pulley, rising above  one of the convent’s cisterns, are still being conserved. Inside there is a great fresco that represents Suor Serafina, but which is difficult to distinguish.