Church of San Michele Arcangelo and Convent of the observant minor friars - Alcara li Fusi

Built between 1518 and 1523 together with the Convent of the Friars Minor, the Church of San Michele Arcangelo is home to the celebrations dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and to Saint Anthony of Padua. Externally, it welcomes the visitor with the gabled facade surmounted by a small rose window under which the portal is located: the latter, carved in local limestone in 1661, bears the coat of arms of the noble Alcarese family of Salerno on the plinths . The interior of the church, with a single nave, is embellished by the polychrome wooden trussed roof and houses valuable works including: the seventeenth-century gilded wooden statue of the Immaculate Conception, a seventeenth-century crucifix, the 16th-century statue of the titular Saint Michael and a canvas, dating back to the end of the sixteenth century, depicting the two sacred families, that of Jesus with St. Joseph and that of the Virgin with the SS. Anna and Gioacchino.