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Exploring an evocative landscape in the Massa Lubrense area, with unparalleled panoramic views of the jagged coastline marked by caves, hollows and the ruins of ancient buildings, we reach Termini (about 330 metres above sea level), which probably owes its name (from the Latin terminus, "end, boundary, conclusion") to its geographical location near Punta Campanella, the extreme tip of the Sorrento peninsula.The small village, also remembered for the allegorical floats of its characteristic carnival, enjoys an enviable panoramic position, of which Piazza Santa Croce is the best known and most spectacular point: from the square's belvedere there is a magnificent and unprecedented view of Capri and the gulf.The church of Santa Croce overlooks the square. The parish was established in 1566, but the church's origin is older and more unusual. It was founded in the 15th century as an 'estaurita' (from the Greek stauros "place where the cross is planted"), created by families who joined together in an organisation, both lay and religious, to found a church to be administered with their own property. In the Sorrento peninsula, many estaurites changed over time into confraternities and others, and those that survived, into parishes.Rebuilt in the early 17th century, the church has a single nave, with four arches on each side, an apse and a dome. On the marble high altar is the Pietà, a painting attributed to 17th-century painter Massimo Stanzione, showing the Virgin holding the body of Christ at the foot of the cross. At the entrance is the ancient altar, which predates the 17th-17th century renovations. The church is particularly devoted to the cult of San Costanzo, the patron saint of Termini, to whom the procession that leaves the church every year to reach the small white church dedicated to the saint on Mount San Costanzo is dedicated.