Church of St. Margaret

The RUPESTRIAN CHURCH OF ST. MARGARET is very suggestive: with an unusual layout, it represents a real “pearl” of the rupestrian civilization. Margaret, according to the name of western tradition – originally St. Marina of Antioch of Pisidia – protector of pregnant women, is enclosed in a round arch, just like in a wooden icon, and each element is richly decorated. The church is mostly known for its very rare rupestrian representations of the Miracle of St. Nicholas of Myra (grant of the dowry to three young girls who otherwise would have prostituted themselves) and for ten panels that tell the story of St. Margaret’s Martyrdom, both dating back to the 13th-14th centuries AD.