Chiesa di Sant'Elia Profeta
You enter the Chiesa di Sant'Elia Profeta through the ground floor of its bell tower — an unusual threshold that sets the tone for what's inside. The church sits in Furore's Cicala district, on a hillside above the coast, quiet in a way the fjord below never quite is.
The single nave opens toward a presbytery that preserves the original square room from the church's earliest phase, its dome-shaped vault still intact. A Roman marble funerary urn stands somewhere inside, unremarked by most visitors, and a triptych painted in the late fifteenth century holds the far wall — the Madonna flanked by Elijah and Bartholomew, the two figures the town has long claimed as its own.
💛 What travellers fall for
People who make it here tend to mention the same thing: the triptych by Angelo Antonello da Capua rewards a long look. The side panels, Elijah and Bartholomew, are easier to read than the central Madonna. Come on a Wednesday or Sunday afternoon — those are the only windows the church reliably opens.
The story behind Chiesa di Sant'Elia Profeta
The church's origins reach back to what the records call 'ancient times,' though the first confirmed structural date is 1474, when an expansion extended a simple square room into a single-nave church. The original presbytery — dome-vaulted, compact — survives that expansion and is still readable in the building's fabric today, where the cross-vaulted ceiling of the newer nave meets the older apse.
The interior's most datable object is the triptych attributed to Angelo Antonello da Capua, painted in the late fifteenth century and connected to the workshop of the Master of San Severino. It depicts the Madonna and Child at center, with Bartholomew the Apostle and the Prophet Elijah to either side. A later painting from 1620 adds Our Lady of Mount Carmel to the church's collection.
Good to know
The church opens Wednesday and Sunday afternoons only — worth confirming locally before you plan around it. SITA buses connect Furore from Amalfi and from the Sorrento–Positano–Praiano route, stopping near the Fiordo di Furore bridge. No admission fee. Allow thirty minutes inside.
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What travellers say about Chiesa di Sant'Elia Profeta
The Church of Sant'Elia Profeta is located on the street of the same name in the municipality of Tramonti. It is a church of little artistic or historical cultural value.
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