Parco Archeologico Storico Naturale delle Chiese Rupestri del Materano

Contrada Ofra (Not listed).

The chapel of San Nicola all'Ofra is part of a vast complex of caves dug out on four levels and used by shepherds as sheepfolds. The smallest of the arches is decorated with a fresco of the Madonna and Child with Saints, bearing the date 1839 and the commissioner, "Cosimo Caione".

(SOURCE: "I luoghi di culto nel Parco della Murgia Materana", Giuseppina Radicchi, Collana Parco Murgia, 2010)