Controguerra

It is part of a larger building complex which is called Palazzo Ducale due to the dominion of the Acquaviva family who were in possession of Controguerra from the 15th century. The tower rests on a shoe base which could be a remnant of an ancient fortification. The alterations suffered by the building have affected its original structure so much that it is not possible to give a precise date; therefore it is customary to indicate a generally late medieval period for the Tower, while the rest of the complex is attributed to the time of the Acquaviva dominion.

There are few traces of the ancient church documented as early as 1574. Its current appearance is that resulting from the renovations of the early nineteenth century. With three naves, the interior has a gilded wooden altar. The small bell gable can be traced back to seventeenth-century restorations.

Like that of the Madonna delle Grazie, the parish church of San Benedetto Abate also appears in the aspect conferred on it by the nineteenth-century restorations carried out on the previous early seventeenth-century temple. In the open tympanum of the stone portal there is the Controguerra coat of arms, dated 1811. The interior preserves two seventeenth-century paintings: Madonna between Saints Domenico and Caterina and a Last Supper.