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The origin of this temple, presumably goes up again to the 230-240 d.C., when to Sorrento there was a persecution against the Christians.

You/he/she was reconstructed at the end of the '500. The Church is in Baroque style to an only aisle. On I break down him/it there is the ancient image of the Madonna copy of the Virgo Bruna in Naples. Pictures of good invoice of artists of the can be admired '600 and of the '700 as well as two artistic shrines in wood of 1600. Apartments Sorrento suggests to visit: The Museum Correale "The most beautiful Museum in province of Italy", so you/he/she has been defined more times this jewel rampart of the art and the culture sorrentina. It is found in an ancient surrounded patrician villa, from an agrumeto that it leans out on the costone proper tufaceo in front of the Gulf in Naples. The villa and the agrumeto, as the splendid terrace of the Belvedere, makes also part of the headed donation to the museum that was given to the citizens of Sorrento by his/her/their brothers Pompeo and Alfred Correale, last descendants of the ancient patrician family. The Correales were native of Staircase, ancient city sita in front of Ravello and of them news is already had in some 1268 documents. We know that they belonged to the Seat (ancient associations of noble) of Door to Sorrento, of Portaretese to Salerno, of I Bring to Naples.

His/her brothers Correales, made therefore of the community sorrentina their villa of family, in which you/they would be had to pick up the collections of art harvests in the numerous trips in Europe available. Of the native character of patrician villa is kept in mind in the disposition of the numerous harvests as if these constituted I furnish him native of the house.

The museum preserves one of the most beautiful harvests of the Neapolitan painters of the sec. XVII and XVIII, some works of the famous one "school of Posillipo" and of some teachers of Flemish school and French of the same period. Precious they are also the porcelains of Capodimonte, those of Sevres, the glasses of they Wall up, the crystals of Boemia and the collection of clocks. Interesting it is the archaeological harvest. The collection of inlays deserves a sign apart sorrentini of the XIX sec. This occupies a whole room and it is rich of tables, furniture and caskets elegantly. Many of these pieces were given to the museum by the poet and cabinetmaker sorrentino Savior Gargiulo (Saltovar). Interesting also the library that possesses various editions of the works of Torquato Tasso and manuscripts you launch. Here it is preserved also the mortuary mask of the Rate. Of this bell tower is notable the part basamentale of Romanesque age, now built now perhaps around the century XI with trunks of columns of various kinds with classical capitals Byzantine, with plinths of statues and with every sort of marmoreal fragments. In the two arcades strongly raised again and in the columns prepared on the edges his/her clear Byzantine accent he notices. This construction also has interest for the urbanistic history of the city since the brief spaces to raised again arcs and the adjoining time on street Pity, to the entry of the episcopio, they served for long time to the public reunions before they developed him in the inside of the castle.