The Chapel of Santa Maria della Pietà was built in 1616 by a group of ships and boats owners who will have founded the next year the "Pio Monte dei Marinai", an association of mutual aid and of assistance for sailors' families. In 1760 they built the new church, of which the old chapel will have been adapted as Sacristy. Particularly valuable is the major altar paneled with polychrome marbles arranged regularly. Other six altars are in the lateral chapels, richly decorated with stuccos. The fine dome and the bell tower stand out clearly from the village and are its main point of reference.

Between Spiaggia della Lingua and the Church there is actually the tourist port, while between the Church and the old shipyards' area there is the commercial port, where they land the ferries and the hydrofoils coming from Naples or from Ischia. In front of this side of the harbour we find Casa Catena (Catena House), an imposing and fortified noble palace, of which it remains today only a part of the original facade, having above the characteristic crenellation decorated with images of animals in relief. The original form of the palace can be seen on a painting from 1690, visible inside the Abbey of the Terra Murata and representing the apparition of San Michele (St.Michael) over the port of Procida assaulted by the Ottomans.  [ More...]