The Church of Saint Erasmus - Linea Blu
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The original church of Saint Erasmus was the time of Constantine, was built on a pagan Christian cemetery where he was buried the Saint of Antioch patron of Formia. Devastated several times over the centuries before in 1500, when it was destroyed by the Turks and then during the war, the Church almost totally renovated between 1538 and 1560, looks after recent renovations in its original beauty.
Features three naves and preserve a painted 18th century anonymous, a slab burial chamber of the Dukes of Marzano of 1698 and the altar containing a wooden statue of the Saint. In the basement are the remains of a Roman necropolis of I-IV century martoriale Tomb from the 4th century, the primitive Cathedral of the fifth century, the tomb of the 7th century, the Benedictines of the eleventh century, 16th century structures in Constantinople and the burial chamber of the 18th century. Next to the duomo, the former chapel of St Probus of 1560 attesting to the completion of the reconstruction of the Cathedral.
