Dedicated to the city’s patron saint, this church was built on the site of an earlier Romanesque church, which was destroyed by fire in 1706. Approached up a wide set of steps and topped by a dome, it was built in Baroque style between 1706 and 1714. On the altar, note the silver statue of St Blaise, holding a model of the city as it would have looked before the 1667 earthquake—having survived the 1706 fire, the statue came to be regarded as miraculous. Unusual in this part of the world, the church has stained-glass windows, which were added in the 1970s.