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Parish Church of St Catherine

The Parish Church of St Catherine was built in the 1630s and houses a fine altarpiece of St Catherine – painted by Mattia Preti in 1675, when the artist took refuge here during a plague epidemic. There are several 17th- and 18th-century windmills dotted about the town.

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