St. Michael Prayer House Association

This is an ex-Carmelite monastery and then became a property of the religious Congregation of the Society of Divine Vocations (often called the Vocationist).

The portal was built towards the end of the 17th century, while in later periods other small doors were created in the perimeter walls. On the side that leads to the village of Mercato, there are 4 towers, built almost certainly for reinforcement to the outer wall. On the left side of the entrance there are the so-called nuns departments, where nuns lived until a few years before the IInd World War. These are large intercommunicating compartments between gold, with a height exceeding four meters, whose windows: ten on the ground floor and as many on the upper floor, give on the current provincial road. These rooms have been renovated several times, adapting them to the needs of the moment, but without radically transforming the original structure. The access doors of these monastic cells were under the corridor of the vaults of the atrial colonnade, as well as those of the ancient refectory and kitchen. The atrium is quadrangular, surrounded by twenty columns, coeval to the foundation, on which the walls of the internal rooms of the upper floor rest. Between the central wall of the four sides of the convent and the columns, opens a very original portico, where the friars in the hour of the air, walked and prayed.

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