 Thus, originally, the "sangiorgese" community was called "Sotena" or "Sotera" and the aforementioned church, now no longer existing and later replaced by the Church of Santissimo Crocifisso, turns out to be the oldest temple of San Giorgio that has been traced.A widespread folk etymology of the word "Sotera", which ran among the inhabitants of the area, would like this term to be a reference to the allusion to the Roman necropolis ("underground"