The Chapel dedicated to the plague victims.
Legend has it that during the plague of 1630 forty Castilians returned from Venice were quarantined in the place where the chapel stands today and died there without any help. The following winter, roses bloomed in the same place, arousing the remorse of the townspeople. Thus, when an epidemic of cholera spread in 1836, the community of Castello built the chapel dedicated to the Madonna delle Grazie, in the same place where in 1630 the forty Castilians lost their lives. The church was later restored and expanded with the addition, in 1889, of the portico, inside which paintings illustrating the story of the plague are preserved.
STRENGTH:
The 40 steps leading to the chapel.
