Chiesa Degli Osservanti
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The Church of the Observant is the most important monument of Cariati, also known as the Church of Santa Philomena. It was built around 1440 by the Florentine Bonaccorso Caponsacco, near the monastery of the Friars Minor, and is formed by two distinct complexes: the Oratory of Santa Filomena and the Oratory of the Madonna della Catena. The Oratory of St. Philomena is in the Gothic style, with a porch and arched stone doorway; The interior has a single nave with apse surmounted by a dome and octagonal decorated with mosaics; chapels with vaulted ceilings. The Oratory of the Madonna della Catena has The facade is pierced by a rose window above the portal with an enrollment of 1441.