Convento dei Padri Barnabiti

The Barnabite convent at Campello Alto incorporates two earlier monastic communities. Its buildings preserve the relationship between a fortified hill settlement and the religious houses established beside it.

Why it matters

The complex brings several phases of religious life together: medieval foundations, their early-seventeenth-century union and the later presence of the Barnabites.

What to notice

The connected buildings and the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli record the joining of the earlier houses. Paintings associated with Lo Spagna and the Master of Fossa belong to the complex’s artistic heritage.

Context and history

The communities of San Pietro and San Giovanni were united in 1604; the connecting church followed in 1608. Suppression in the Napoleonic period interrupted their institutional history. The Barnabites acquired the property in 1935, giving the older monastic buildings a new religious role.