Church of San Sebastiano

The first news, which refers to a monks and san Sebastiani, is from 1502 and therefore the church, municipal, is likely to origin late fifteenth and contemporary with the rise of the cult of the saint who protected from the plague, which also in Fossato di Vico behind it mercenary armies and bands at each passage. Before San Sebastiano, which is the protector of the Commune from the second half of the 1400s, they were protectors of Fossato S. Giovanni Battista and S. Pietro. The church that we see today was a chapel at the time, perhaps located in the underlying Carceri, above which were made the municipal arenghe or adunantie of the male family heads of all the territory still at the end of the Middle Ages. At that time, in addition to the rituals, there were public promises of dowry to the maritande in robbe or denari, there were met goats to wander and more; and also to mention that in the early 16th century two churches appear to be connected to San Sebastiano, which no longer exist, that of San Rocco, located in the San Martino valley, and that of Fraternita, inside the castle walls. Then there is a 1617 rescript of the bishop of Nocera, who wants the Church to rebuild and enlarge, but it does not seem to have been done, until, after sporadic interventions on several occasions, in the 60s of the X1th century it changed into 'current structure, which architecturally overflows upsetting the ancient surrounding order. It was on that occasion that from the very ancient S. Pietro, considered inadequate, the Pievania moved there, with formal capitulation between this and the Municipality on October 24, 1863, while the opening to the cult was September 3, 1871. Presbytery some restored seventeenth-century paintings and above the entrance an eighteenth-century pipe organ with stringed bellows.