The co-cathedral basilica of Saint Agatha was built in Romanesque style in the 12th century, but the present baroque church dates from a reconstruction from 1629 to 1696. The work was entrusted to the local builders Francesco Bischettimi and Scipione Lachibari, according to Giovan Bernandino Genuino's design for the whole building. Due to the large number of paintings, the interior can be considered a real gallery of paintings.
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.
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 Church of the Santissimo Crocifisso, seat of the brotherhood of the same name, was built in 1750 on land belonging to the Dominican fathers and purchased by the brotherhood in 1741. It was designed by Carlo Multò, an artillery captain serving at the Royal Castle of Gallipoli, and built by Ortensio Preite, a master craftsman from Cupertino.
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