Church of Santa Maria del Passo

The small church of Santa Maria del Passo dates back to the 16th century. Located between the city and the Hill of Minerva, was built to commemorate the passage in 1480 of eight hundred Otranto's citizens who were taken on the hill to be executed by the Turks. It has a single rectangular hall with a barrel-vaulted, characterized by an apse which bears the image of the Virgin.