Church of Saint Nicholas

In the small and important Barbaric village of Ottana, known all over the world for its masks, the church of Saint Nicholas majestically welcomes the visitors. The austere and fascinating Romanesque architecture, which was the cathedral from 1112 to 1503 when Ottana was a bishopric, dominates the old town center with its imposing, two-tone alternation of black-purple basalt and pink trachyte. It houses the Ottana Altarpiece, a 14th-century polyptych by the so-called Master of Franciscan temperas, a painter of the school of Lorenzetti who worked in Naples between 1330 and 1345.