Chiesa di San Rocco di Monteleone di Puglia

The small Church of Campagna dedicated to San Rocco was built in the mid-800, at the end of a terrible plague that deeply affected Monteleone. The dead were hundreds, three hundred victims were buried in a garden located a few hundred meters from the town, where in 1854, the survivors built the small chapel, in honor of San Rocco, patron saint of the plague. Probably there was also an iron cross, of which today only the stone of the base remains, which bears the engraving: "O Crux, ave spes unica".

The earthquake of 1962 destroyed the chapel, which was rebuilt, according to the present features that recall in miniature the Church of San Giovanni Battista in the city center. In particular, the facade seems a proposal for shapes and decorations of the Mother Church of Monteleone.