Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista

Church Matera, Italy

The original structure dates back to years immediately prior to the thirteenth century and was completed in 1233, in this period the church was known as Santa Maria la Nova and was a place of welcome for the Augustinian penitents of Accon. When the nuns moved, around the end of the fifteenth century, the church was abandoned and remained unused until 1695, the year in which Monsignor del Ryos sanctioned its reopening for worship, giving it the name we know it today.