Museo Parrocchiale "Mons. Francesco Maiolo"

The museum located in the premises of the S. GIOVANNI BATTISTA PARISH (Piazza Malta), occupies five rooms which follow one another according to a single itinerary. The first two rooms house work tools of the peasant and artisan reality, as well as objects for domestic use from the last century. The other three rooms are dedicated to the display of vestments, furnishings and sacred art furnishings, some dating back to the 1700s and 1800s, of particular artistic value. The materials selected from finds in ecclesiastical premises and from donations from citizens. Of particular relevance is a statue of Our Lady of Sorrows, dating back to 1700; a FEMALE NOBLE DRESS of the century. XIX, with gold gilded embroidery; a collection of ancient SACRED IMAGES; sacred furnishings in silver and brass; a front in single piece of marble of the TABERNACLE with inlays in real stone of Gimigliano, dating back to 1700; a stoup with base in green stone of Gimigliano, dating back to 1700; the so-called SACRED STONE, which was placed in the center of the altar table and containing the relics of the martyr saints; TRADITIONAL GIZZEROTE COSTUMES in the three versions of young lady, married and widow; a stone mill for domestic use; a BRICK of clay and straw; Broom BLANKETS; OBJECTS in limestone. The museum documents the environment and culture of the past, when the day was marked by the times and rhythms marked by the village church, in a dimension that made everyone's life a real symbiosis between everyday life and faith. The premises are adjacent to the Church of S. Giovanni Battista - protector of Gizzeria - probably built in 1500 and rebuilt after the 1638 earthquake.