Churches and places of worship Abbazia di S. Maria a Mare A masterpiece of the Benedictines first and the Lateran Canons then, built in 1045 at the point marked by a hermit (thanks to the apparition of Our Lady) such as the one in which to find the treasure of Diomedes. Perfected a few years later with Renaissance decorative motifs of Veneto-Tuscany origin, it is composed of three naves and inside are mainly found: the wooden cross representing the Christ suffering is the wooden statue of the Virgin and Child, of Byzantine inspiration; the wooden polyptych of the high altar and the well-known and admired Mosaic Floor.