The Jago Museum and the Blue Church give light to Sanità

The Church of Sant'Aspreno ai Crociferi, dating back to 1633 but rebuilt a century later due to flood damage, designed by Bartolomeo and Luca Vecchione collaborators of Luigi Vanvitelli, now lives a new life. Decorated with valuable stuccoes, it has become the theatre in which the creatures sculpted by the artist Jago seem to 'move' despite being stationary on their pedestals. Managed by the La Sorte social cooperative made up of willing and knowledgeable young people from the neighbourhood, the museum highlights the work of the Frosinone sculptor who found an inexhaustible creative source in Naples. His Pietà and Veiled Son arouse lively interest and at the same time profound questions. A few dozen metres further on, in the Church of Santa Maria Maddalena in Via dei Cristallini, one is happily disturbed by the intensity of blue, the colour chosen by local artists and young people to breathe new life into this sacred place that has remained closed for over four decades. The faces depicted on the walls tell human stories of redemption. Also attractive is the architecture of Palazzo Sanfelice, with its cusped doorway, two separate portals and double-circular staircase.