The parish church of the Colle district; it had existed since 1078 and, together with the church of S. Simeone, was the nucleus around which the settlement of the Alvito “valley” grew. In 1632 it was the seat of the company of St. Charles, with «the abbot parish priest of one hundred and twenty scudi annually, and three chaplains» (G. P. M. Castrucci); destroyed by an earthquake in 1634, it was rebuilt in 1682 by Duke Tolomeo. The smooth façade has an entrance portal with a triangular tympanum and two leaning pillars, ending in a pyramid, which end before joining the cornice, straight on the sides and curvilinear in the middle, framing a rectangular window placed on the axis of the portal. A mixtilinear tympanum with a central stucco rosette completes the façade. Two more rectangular windows, adjacent to the pillars, were probably opened in the 19th century. The main bell bears the date 1304.
Church of St John the Evangelist





