The Cathedral of Vieste was built during the second half of the 11th Century, about 100 metres from the castle. The castle was destroyed and pillaged by the Saracens in the 16th Century, hit by earthquakes including the one in 1646. The choir and two chapels replaced the apses, which were originally semicircular in shape, during the 13th and 14th Century. A tempera-painted wooden ceiling in Neapolitan Baroque style covered the trusses on the nave in the 18th Century. Inside are a lovely 18th Century baptistery of polychrome marble and N. Brudaglio’s 1756 statue of the Virgin.
