Santissima Annunziata, Former cathedral in Vico Equense, Italy.

Santissima Annunziata is a former cathedral built between 1320 and 1330 on a rocky spur about 90 metres above the sea, overlooking the Marina d'Equa. Its late-18th-century Baroque facade is divided by a cornice, with paired pilasters and a large window; the interior has three naves on six tuff piers and a pentagonal rib-vaulted apse. The 16th-century square bell tower, commissioned by Paolo Regio, has an arch through which the access road passes.

The first cathedral of Vico Equense stood on the beach at today's Marina d'Equa, exposed to pirate raids, so the town centre moved uphill and Bishop Giovanni Cimino had a new cathedral built on a rocky spur about 90 metres above the sea, probably between 1320 and 1330. Bishop Paolino Pace had the façade rebuilt between 1773 and 1792. The church was the episcopal seat until Bishop Michele Natale died in 1799 and remained cathedral until the diocese was suppressed and merged into Sorrento in 1818. Damaged by the 1980 earthquake, it reopened for worship on 26 August 1995 after almost twenty years of closure.

The sacristy holds 34 portraits of the bishops of Vico Equense, painted by Francesco Palumbo at the request of Bishop Paolino Pace. The series omits Bishop Michele Natale, hanged in 1799 for supporting the Neapolitan Republic; in his place a putto raises a finger to command silence.

The church stands on a rocky spur about ninety metres above the sea, and the bell tower of the sixteenth century has a square plan with an arch beneath which the access road to the church passes. The building was closed for almost twenty years after the 1980 earthquake and reopened on 26 August 1995, so check current opening arrangements before climbing up.

The bell tower, built in the 16th century under Paolo Regio, has a square plan and a road to the church passes through an arch at its base. It is divided into three orders and ends in a crenellated terrace; it houses two bells consecrated in 1958.