Overview
Overlooking Piazza Castello, the church is of Byzantine origin (10th century) but reused in the 12th century as a private chapel of the Norman royals, who reached it from the castle through an underground passage. Damaged by the Turks in 1594, closed in 1767 and largely destroyed by the 1783 earthquake, the church was completely rebuilt in 1927 in the Arab-Norman style. Inside, however, it preserves columns and pieces of a Cosmatesque mosaic floor of the previous construction. The high altar is decorated with an Annunciation, an altarpiece from the Tuscan school of 1597.
