The church of Monte Calvario, also known as the Church of the Crosses, was built from 1693 to 1742 on the site where Capuchin Father Antonio da Olivadi planted seven crosses on the way of a penitential procession against the famine. The crosses gradually gave way to a complex consisting of a Baroque triumphal arch, five chapels and the church, in the form of a Latin cross.
The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows was built from 1739 to 1741 in the Baroque style. The church was built to house the brotherhood of Maria SS. dei Sette Dolori which was first based in the church of S. Eligio (from 1711 to 1715), then in the church of Succorpo (from 1715 to 1741) and finally settled in the church of Our Lady of Sorrows.
The cathedral of Foggia was built from 1170 in the Romanesque style of Puglia, with Pisan influences. It was damaged and restored in a purely Baroque style after the 1731 earthquake. Foggia Cathedral is closely linked to the "Virgin of the Seven Veils" which, according to tradition, was found in the 11th century by a shepherd in the current lake square in Foggia.
The Basilica Cathedral of Lucera is an example of Gothic-Anjou architecture, built by order of Charles II of Anjou and consecrated in 1302. Traces of the ancient cathedral, sacked in 663 by the Byzantine Emperor Constantius II, were lost over the following centuries, probably falling into ruin in the 13th century when Frederick II deported the Saracens from Sicily to the city. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the cathedral was renovated in the Baroque style with the addition of four side chapels.
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