THE CURCHS

Mother church

After the deconsecration of the little church of St. Nicholas of Bari (private chapel annex in the baronial Palace of the prince don Tiberio Carafa (1599-1692) built in the face of the Keep in the XVII century on account of the revelries of the bargello (magistrate), April 23,1645 was started the construction of the Mother church of the Immacolata Concezione to work of the prince don Tiberio Carafa, that donated 37 ducats and the monumental statue of the Virgin Mary, crowned then August 12, 1928 with Decree of the Vatican Chapter.

The church and to an only nave in Baroque style complete of elevated bell tower on the preexistent the "Souls in Purgatory" chapel. Statue preserve wooden of the XVI (st Nicolas), XVII (Immacolata), XVIII and XIX century and two painting of the diamantese Antonio and Prassede Grimaldi painters, further to other cloth of very good making

Church of St. Blaise and of the Good Shepherd

Kind at first as chapel of dedicated family to the bishop and martyr of Sebaste, it became with the pass of the years a pretty little church elevated to the one title of only parish from about forty-year. To its interior, today reorganized, it is to keep three wooden statue of different epoches and a painting of the 1700.

To get round to the scarce capacity of containing a number always more increasing than faithful, it came decided the construction of a new church (with pause of the first February 3, 1984 stone) dedicated to Jesus Good Shepherd. Are keep in this two depicted work from the Nani Razzetti artist: "The Latest Dinner" and the "Way of the Cross".

Church of St. Joseph

They are not known the construction year of the little church of St. Joseph but it is known that also this sips (perhaps at the end of the 1800 or at the beginning of the 1900) as family chapel. To its interior besides the wooden statue of the Saint and of St. Rita from Cascia is to keep two work of the Sicilian painter Luigi Maniscalco:"The flight into Egypt" and "The transit blessed Soul of St. Joseph".

Saint church Mary of the Bloom

Constructed in the XVI century with the style of a little Latin basilica perhaps in an origin temple old man Greek fret or Roman, present already to the nobility mark entry with the powerful portal in stint stone, resinging the coat of arms and the tombstone of the of Reggio Calabria patrician Mons. De Moncada, to then continue inside with the two funerary monument of the duca Catalano-Gonzaga in seas it black and polychrome with eagle to the four sides.

Besides to the bust of the Virgin Mary of the Bloom of the 1500 (unites testimony of the destroyed Romanesque church of St. Nicholas the Great of the Cirella Medieval) are kept in the church other wooden statue of the XVI and XVII century and a fragment of a Corinthian capital of the XIII century used as gate-paschal large candle.

 


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