The church of San Rocco of Arpino dates from the seventeenth century by incorporating one of the towers of the city wall.
It consists of a single small room with a central altar in polychrome marble in the shape of a temple.
On either side of the altar there is a baroque framed fresco. In the church there is the statue of San Rocco with a small dog at his feet.
The churches of San Rocco are found in almost every town in Italy as the saint of French origin was the protector from the plague.
San Rocco is often depicted with the little dog that daily brought him nourishment in the form of bread while he was a hermit leprosy patient hermit.
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