The cave of the Holy Savior, better known as "il Salvatoriello", opens at 750 meters on the northeastern wall of Mount Stella, just outside the town of Ogliara, and houses the ancient structure of a Byzantine-style rock church, an eloquent testimony of the Greek-Eastern monastic settlement. On the back wall of the cave a quadrangular basin, which still collects the water from the rock, precedes a cavity with a small cistern followed by a third and larger hypogeum of irregular shape and characterized by complex masonry works. Overlapping rooms, niches, a probable cell, arches and pillars up to a chapel closed at the front by an apsidal wall erected close to the rock and, once, entirely covered with plaster. Traces and fragments of the decoration of strongly stylized figures (which can be placed between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century) but still quite evident, suggest the presence of an important fresco

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Antonio Lodato

March 27, 2022

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