Nardò Cathedral

The Church of San Francesco da Paola is a church in the historic centre of Gallipoli, built in 1621 as part of the convent of the Frati Minimi. The convent was suppressed on 4 January 1809 and the building was used for various civil purposes until it was abandoned. It is currently in ruins. The church is the seat of the Confraternity of Santa Maria ad Nives or Cassopo.

The Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Canneto is a Baroque church that was built in the second half of the 17th century on a pre-existing sacred building dating from 1504. A first church had been built here in the 13th and 14th centuries and was destroyed in 1502 after the French siege. The interior of the present church is divided into three naves. The precious wooden coffered ceiling has a gilded icon of the Virgin Mary in the centre, while a large archway with floral motifs leads to the presbytery.

The church of Santa Maria della Purità was built between 1662 and 1665 by the Bastasi brotherhood, the dockers. The façade, delimited on the sides by two pilasters and finished with a slightly protruding cornice on which rests a pediment with two lateral pinnacles, has two small windows placed in the axis of the two entrance portals. The façade is enriched with three majolica panels representing the Madonna della Purità, St. Joseph and St. Francis of Assisi.