The sanctuary of Santa Maria della Rotonda is built on the site of a nymphaeum, which is an interesting architectural precedent of the more famous Pantheon in Rome. The church was consecrated in 1060, although there is evidence of its having been used as a place of worship from the 9^th century onwards.

The building underwent a succession of transformations in the 17^th, 18^th anf 19^th centuries, but in 1938 these additions were all removed and the church restored to its ancient splendour.

The church has a most suggestive interior. Over the central altar there is an ancient icon of the Madonna and Child in Byzantine style, which was repainted in the 15^th century, while in the vaults to the right of the altar there are traces of wall-paintings, of which the best preserved one, datable to the 14^th century.

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