Parco Archeologico Storico Naturale delle Chiese Rupestri del Materano

Location: Contrada San Pardo (Listed under Law no. 1089/39).

The rupestrian church, created into the rock close to a ravine, has a masonry façade dated 1722 and a bell gable. The interior has a central hall frescoes on the vault and on the two side walls. Both rooms have a stone altar leaning against the back wall, while in the nave there are the remains of the original altar. There is a fresco of St. Desiderius dated 1742, a Crucifixion between Saints Peter and Paul and the Evangelists in four medallions.

(SOURCE: "I luoghi di culto nel Parco della Murgia Materana", Giuseppina Radicchi, Collana Parco Murgia, 2010)