The church of San Carlo Borromeo

At the foot of the statue of Carlo Emanuele III, Corso Tagliafico begins, leading up to the church of San Carlo Borromeo, with its blended elegance of Neoclassical and Baroque. The bell tower, set back from the front of the church, can be traced back to the Baroque, while the clarity and geometric rigour of the façade belongs to the Neoclassical.
Among the treasures housed inside are statues of St. Charles, St. Anne and the Madonna child; a reproduction of the Pietà, a mosaic depicting Don Mario Ghiga and Don Gabriele Pagani, and a cloth of St. Charles in adoration of the Virgin Mary, donated by the Savoys.
Finally, in its most intimate and hidden part, behind the high altar, is the stone removed from the apse of the church of Tabarka, Tunisia, abandoned forever a few centuries earlier.

The Church of the Novelli Innocenti

The parish church is of a composite style, the small church of the Novelli Innocenti, on the edge of the village is pure late Baroque. It was erected on the ruins of a medieval church built at the behest of Pope Gregory IX in memory of the adolescents who, having set sail in around 1212 from Marseilles for the Holy Land to fight in the “Crusade of the Children”, were shipwrecked and died near the coast of the island of San Pietro.
The small church, the only religious reference point for the first group of settlers returning from Tabarka, has an exemplary and rigorous style: a white façade, crowned by an attic with a triangular tympanum; pinnacles culminating in the vertical lines of the pilasters, which intersect a light stringcourse in the middle of the façade; a sober portal, surmounted by a classic kidney-shaped window. Inside, a well-proportioned single-nave hall covered by a low vault.

The church is only open to the public on special occasions or on visits with an official guide

The Church of the Madonna dello Schiavo

Another monument that is very dear to the devotion of the people of Carloforte is the church of the Madonna dello Schiavo (Our Lady of the Slave), located in the very central via XX Settembre. It is a small sanctuary whose name owes itself to the wooden statue – a figurehead lost from a ship – placed as an ornament of the high altar, which was found by one of the inhabitants of Carloforte during slavery in Tunisia.
The construction of the building was completed in neoclassical style in 1815 by the few hundred inhabitants who returned to the island after years of exile. The little church is affectionately known as Gêxétta du Previn (little church of the priest) in honour of Don Nicolò Segni, the young priest who followed and comforted the people of Carloforte during slavery. Since September 1988, the 250th anniversary of the founding of Carloforte, it houses the remains of an unknown slave transferred from Tunis.

It is celebrated on 15th November with an intimate procession much revered by the entire population.

The church of San Pietro Apostolo

Started in April 1999, the construction of the church of San Pietro Apostolo, patron saint of the island and of Carloforte, was completed a few years later: its inauguration took place in 2004.
The building, bright and spacious, with a bell tower reminiscent of the sloping roofs of the typical Barracche (cottages), is located in a side street of Via Corvetto, a stone’s throw from the Novelli Innocenti church.  Inside, the building houses the statue of the saint after whom it is named, which is carried in the sea procession celebrated each year on Saint Peter day (29th June), followed by the boats of local fishermen and inhabitants of the island.