Calabria | San Domenico Monumental Complex

The Monumental Complex of San Domenico a Lamezia Terme is located at the junction between Corso Numistrano and Corso Giovanni Nicotera in the Nicastro district. The Church of San Domenico is a casket of valuable value, it preserves numerous frescoes and the painting of San Domenico, with a baroque frame of 1647. Here the philosopher Tommaso Campanella deepened his theological studies. There is also a silver monstrance dating back to the first half of the nineteenth century. Of great value is the organ of the eighteenth century, and between the first and second arch, you can admire the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes while in front of it there is a small altar dedicated to the Holy Ecce Homo; on the first floor of the Monumental complex is located the Archaeological Museum Lametino. The museum is divided into three sections that house the finds found in different sites of the Lametina plain, through which you can retrace the historical dynamics of the territory from prehistoric times, to the Classical period until the Middle Ages.

During the visit you can admire the tools used by the first Paleolithic hunters who lived in Calabria; the monetary treasures that testify the economic and political relations of the Lametina plain; but also objects of common use that testify the different male and female activities that took place inside the oikos (house).

The medieval section collects various elements and objects of three important monuments of Lamezia Terme: the small church of SS. Quaranta Martiri di Caronte, the Benedictine abbey of S. Eufemia and the Norman-Swabian castle of Nicastro.