Under the guardianship of the order of the Celestinis, the complex was devoted to the pontiff san Celestino V , to the century Pietro Angelerio da Morrone. Commonly said "of San Pietro a Maiella" in memory of the hermitage of the Saint on the Maiella. There were Radicals restaurations in 3000 and 4000 when it was figurative forward the facade, for the addition of six chapels, originally lined up with the bell tower. The inside has three aisles and the principal is characterized by a chests ceiling and the side ones with vaults. The aisles are separate by pillars that support Gothic arcs. In the apse is situated the seventeenth-century great altar, realized on sketch of Cosimo Fanzago da Pietro and Bartolomeo Ghetti. The cassettonatis ceiling of the median aisle and the transept were projected by Bonaventura Presti and they were decorated with paintings of Mattia Preti. Other works are of Massimo Stanzione, Nicola Malinconico, Giacomo del Po, Francesco de Mura, Giovanni de Nola, Onofrio de Leone and Lorenzo Vaccaro. The library guards an important collection of musical manuscripts and books of work of the Neapolitan school and not.

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