Chiesa della Trasfigurazione

Succivo’s Church of the Transfiguration combines a Latin-cross plan and central dome with paintings and wooden sculpture. Its Baroque character reflects rebuilding and decoration carried out over several centuries.

Why it matters

The parish church embodies a long civic and religious undertaking. Rebuilding followed a fire in 1670, while later campaigns continued into the nineteenth century.

What to notice

The dome gives the interior its spatial focus. Seventeen round paintings by Tommaso De Vivo depict Christ, the Apostles and the Evangelists. Wooden statues preserve an earlier layer of furnishing, while the organ belongs to the church’s continuing musical history.

Context and history

The church developed from earlier fabric through seventeenth- and eighteenth-century rebuilding. The De Vivo cycle was commissioned in 1864, adding a coherent group of paintings to the interior. Subsequent restoration and changes to the altar continued the building’s evolution as Succivo’s parish church within the Diocese of Aversa.